Double Agents
Women and Clerical Culture in Anglo-Saxon England
1st Edition
Published on 1. February 2009
256 pages
978-1-78316-361-8 (ISBN)
Description
First published in 2001, Double Agents was the first book-length study of women in Anglo-Saxon written culture that took on the insights provided by contemporary critical and feminist theory, and it quickly established itself as a standard. Now available again, it complicates the exclusion of women from the historical record of Anglo-Saxon England by tackling the deeper questions behind how the feminine is modeled, used, and made metaphoric in Anglo-Saxon texts, even when the women themselves are absent.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Wales
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
Not illustrated
ISBN-13
978-1-78316-361-8 (9781783163618)
DOI
10.1234/b10287
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Book
02/2009
University of Wales Press
€93.50
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Persons
Clare A. Lees is professor of medieval literature at King's College London.
Content
- Intro
- Series Editors' Preface
- Preface
- Acknowledgements, 2001
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Patristic Maternity: Bede, Hild and Cultural Procreation
- 2 Orality, Femininity and the Disappearing Trace in Early Anglo-Saxon England
- 3 Literacy and Gender in Later Anglo-Saxon England
- 4 Figuring the Body: Gender, Performance, Hagiography
- 5 Pressing Hard on the 'Breasts' of Scripture: Metaphor and the Symbolic
- Notes
- Bibliography
