Writing women saints in Anglo-Saxon England /
Szarmach, Paul E,editor of compilation .
The twelve essays in this collection ... [embrace] a number of different scholarly approaches, from codicological study to feminist theory. While some contributions are dedicated to the description and reconstruction of female lives of saints and their cults, others explore the broader ideological and cultural investments of the literature. The volume concentrates on four major areas: the female saint in the Old English Martyrology, genre including hagiography and homelitic writing, motherhood and chastity, and differing perspectives on lives of virgin martyrs. The essays reveal how saints' lives that exist on the apparent margins of orthodoxy actually demonstrate a successful literary challenge extending the idea of a holy life."--Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Old English martyrology -- Form and genre -- Mothers -- Virgin martyrs.
The twelve essays in this collection ... [embrace] a number of different scholarly approaches, from codicological study to feminist theory. While some contributions are dedicated to the description and reconstruction of female lives of saints and their cults, others explore the broader ideological and cultural investments of the literature. The volume concentrates on four major areas: the female saint in the Old English Martyrology, genre including hagiography and homelitic writing, motherhood and chastity, and differing perspectives on lives of virgin martyrs. The essays reveal how saints' lives that exist on the apparent margins of orthodoxy actually demonstrate a successful literary challenge extending the idea of a holy life."--Provided by publisher.
Martyrologium (Anglo-Saxon)
Christian literature, English (Old)
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
English literature
Women and literature
Christian hagiography
Christian women saints in literature.
Women in literature.
Mothers in literature.