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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459371203321

Autore

Lees Clare A

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cardiff, : University of Wales Press, 2009

ISBN

1-299-20050-8

0-7083-2232-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (286 p.)

Collana

Religion & culture in the Middle Ages

Altri autori (Persone)

OveringGillian R

Disciplina

829.093823

Soggetti

Christian literature, English (Old) - History and criticism

Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) - England - History and criticism

Women - Religious life - England - History - To 1500

Feminism and literature - England - History - To 1500

Women and literature - England - History - To 1500

Women - England - History - Middle Ages, 500-1500

Clergy - England - History - To 1500

Rhetoric, Medieval

Electronic books.

Great Britain History Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066

England Social conditions 1066-1485

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Series Editors' Preface; Preface; Acknowledgements, 2001; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Patristic Maternity: Bede, Hild and Cultural Procreation; Orality, Femininity and the Disappearing Trace in Early Anglo-Saxon England; Literacy and Gender in Later Anglo-Saxon England; Figuring the Body: Gender, Performance, Hagiography; Pressing Hard on the 'Breasts' of Scripture: Metaphor and the Symbolic; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.