Double agents : women and clerical culture in Anglo-Saxon England / Clare A. Lees and Gillian R. Overing.

By:

Lees, Clare A

Contributor(s):

Overing, Gillian R, 1952-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Religion & culture in the Middle AgesPublication details: Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (266 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780708322321
0708322328
9780708321836
0708321836
9781783163618
1783163615

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Double agents.DDC classification:

829.093823 22

LOC classification:

PR275 .L44 2009eb

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Originally published: Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.

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

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.

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