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9780859915687

Women Saints' Lives in Old English Prose

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  • ISBN13:

    9780859915687

  • ISBN10:

    0859915689

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-05-01
  • Publisher: BOYDELL & BREWER

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Summary

Devout, virtuous and independent, the heroines of Old English saints' lives (one of the most popular literary genres of the middle ages) provided exemplars of personal and public inspiration for medieval Christians. The eight lives translated here are the earliest known vernacular accounts of the biographies of Æthelthryth, Agatha, Agnes, Cecilia, Eugenia, Euphrosyne, Lucy, and Mary of Egypt. They depict women escaping unwanted marriages, communicating with male relatives, acquiring an education, living autonomously as hermits, and achieving positions of leadership; such lives document not only the importance of spiritual faith to early Christian women, but also testify to how these women (and their audience) employed faith as a tool for empowerment. Each life is preceded by a brief description of the saint's cult from its early Christian origins to its presence in Anglo-Saxon culture. The translation is accompanied by an introduction establishing the general background for the genre, the conventions of women saints' lives, and women's religious culture in Anglo-Saxon England; and an interpretive essay exploring the relationships between explicit presentations of the female body and the strength of spiritual authority as exhibited in these texts completes the volume.LESLIE A. DONOVANis Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(4)
Origin and Development of Saints' Lives in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
5(6)
Traditions and Conventions of Women Saints' Lives
11(4)
Religious Background for Saints' Lives in Anglo-Saxon England
15(4)
Women in Anglo-Saxon Religion and Culture
19(6)
Note to the Translations
25(2)
Abbreviations and Key to Latin Sources
27(2)
Women Saints' Lives 29(92)
Æthelthryth
31(6)
Agatha
37(8)
Agnes
45(12)
Cecilia
57(10)
Eugenia
67(12)
Euphrosyne
79(12)
Lucy
91(6)
Mary of Egypt
97(24)
Interpretive Essay 121(14)
The Gendered Body as Spiritual Problem and Spiritual Answer in the Lives of Women Saints
121(14)
Suggestions for Further Reading 135(4)
Index 139

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