Double agents
Subtitle: women and clerical culture in Anglo-Saxon England
By: Clare A. Lees and Gillian R. Overing
Contributors: Overing, Gillian R., 1952-
Series: Religion and culture in the Middle Ages
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cardiff
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780708322321
Subjects: Feminism and literature; History; Women and literature; Christian literature, English (Old); History and criticism; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; LITERARY CRITICISM; Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern); Clergy; Women; Religious life; European
Description: First printed in 2001 by the University of Pennsylvania Press, this book has been out of print for several years and is highly sought after by researchers in the field of Medieval cultural studies. Double Agents was the first book length study of women in Anglo-Saxon written culture that took on board the insights of contemporary critical theory, especially feminist theory, in order to elucidate the complex challenges of both the absence and presence of women in the historical record.
Notes: Originally published: Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-248) and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Series Editors' Preface; Preface; Acknowledgements, 2001; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Patristic Maternity: Bede, Hild and Cultural Procreation; Orality, Femininity and the Disappearing Trace in EarlyAnglo-Saxon England; Literacy and Gender in Later Anglo-Saxon England; Figuring the Body: Gender, Performance, Hagiography; Pressing Hard on the 'Breasts' of Scripture: Metaphor andthe Symbolic; Bibliography; Index;