Feminist Approaches to Early Medieval English Studies / edited by RObin Norris, Rebecca Stephenson, and Ren�ee R. Trilling.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Knowledge communities (Amsterdam, Netherlands)Publisher: Minneapolis : Amsterdam University Press, [2023]Description: 1 online resource (410 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9048554314
  • 9789048554317
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Feminist Approaches to Early Medieval English StudiesDDC classification:
  • 829.093522 23/eng/20221205
LOC classification:
  • PR179.W65 F45 2023
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Contents:
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Metacritical Considerations -- 1. The Lost Victorian Women of Old English Studies -- M. J. Toswell -- 2. Embroidered Narratives -- Christina Lee -- 3. Remembering the Lady of Mercia -- Scott Thompson Smith -- Affect Theory -- 4. Be a Man, Beowulf -- Sentimental Masculinity and the Gentleness of Kings -- E. J. Christie -- 5. Shame, Disgust and �lfric's Masculine Performance -- Alice Jorgensen -- Treatments of Virginity -- 6. The Ornament of Virginity -- Aldhelm's De uirginitate and the Virtuous Women of the Early English Church
Emily V. Thornbury -- 7. Chaste Bodies and Untimely Virgins -- Sexuality, Temporality, and Bede's �thelthryth -- Lisa M. C. Weston -- Medical Discourse -- 8. Mona�gecynd and flewsan -- Wanted and Unwanted Monthly Courses in Old English Medical Texts -- Dana M. Oswald -- 9. Dangerous Voices, Erased Bodies -- Reassessing the Old English Wifgem�dla and Witches in Leechbook III -- Erin E. Sweany -- 10. Women and "Women's Medicine" in Early Medieval England, from Text to Practice -- Christine Voth -- Women's Literacy -- 11. The Literate Memory of Hugeburc of Heidenheim -- Aidan Conti
12. A Road Nearly Taken -- An Eighth-Century Manuscript in a Woman's Hand and Franco-Saxon Nuns in Early Medieval English Intellectual History -- Matthew T. Hussey -- 13. "Historical Accuracy," Anonymity, and Women's Authorship -- The Case of the Case for Beowulf -- Stephen M. Yeager -- Index -- List of Illustrations -- Fig. 3.1 Cassell's Illustrated History of England from the Roman Invasion to the Wars of the Roses -- Fig. 3.2 The �thelfl�d statue at Tamworth Castle, designed by H. C. Mitchell and sculpted by E. G. Bramwell. The statue was raised in 1913
Fig. 3.3 The �thelfl�d statue sculpted by Luke Perry and raised in 2018 -- Fig. 11.1 Hugeburc's cipher. M�unchen, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm. 1086, fol. 71v, lines 4-78 -- Fig. 12.1 Detail from W�urzburg, Universit�atsbibliothek M.p.th.f.79, fol. 1v. -- Fig. 12.2 Detail from Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Hatton 48, fol. 1r. -- Fig. 12.3 Detail from Boulogne-sur-Mer, Biblioth�eque Municipale 74 (82), fol. 53r. -- Fig. 12.4 Detail from Paris, Biblioth�eque Nationale lat. 17177, fol. 8r. -- Fig. 12.5 Detail from Boulogne-sur-Mer, Biblioth�eque Municipale 74 (82), fol. 1r.
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Cover -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Metacritical Considerations -- 1. The Lost Victorian Women of Old English Studies -- M. J. Toswell -- 2. Embroidered Narratives -- Christina Lee -- 3. Remembering the Lady of Mercia -- Scott Thompson Smith -- Affect Theory -- 4. Be a Man, Beowulf -- Sentimental Masculinity and the Gentleness of Kings -- E. J. Christie -- 5. Shame, Disgust and �lfric's Masculine Performance -- Alice Jorgensen -- Treatments of Virginity -- 6. The Ornament of Virginity -- Aldhelm's De uirginitate and the Virtuous Women of the Early English Church

Emily V. Thornbury -- 7. Chaste Bodies and Untimely Virgins -- Sexuality, Temporality, and Bede's �thelthryth -- Lisa M. C. Weston -- Medical Discourse -- 8. Mona�gecynd and flewsan -- Wanted and Unwanted Monthly Courses in Old English Medical Texts -- Dana M. Oswald -- 9. Dangerous Voices, Erased Bodies -- Reassessing the Old English Wifgem�dla and Witches in Leechbook III -- Erin E. Sweany -- 10. Women and "Women's Medicine" in Early Medieval England, from Text to Practice -- Christine Voth -- Women's Literacy -- 11. The Literate Memory of Hugeburc of Heidenheim -- Aidan Conti

12. A Road Nearly Taken -- An Eighth-Century Manuscript in a Woman's Hand and Franco-Saxon Nuns in Early Medieval English Intellectual History -- Matthew T. Hussey -- 13. "Historical Accuracy," Anonymity, and Women's Authorship -- The Case of the Case for Beowulf -- Stephen M. Yeager -- Index -- List of Illustrations -- Fig. 3.1 Cassell's Illustrated History of England from the Roman Invasion to the Wars of the Roses -- Fig. 3.2 The �thelfl�d statue at Tamworth Castle, designed by H. C. Mitchell and sculpted by E. G. Bramwell. The statue was raised in 1913

Fig. 3.3 The �thelfl�d statue sculpted by Luke Perry and raised in 2018 -- Fig. 11.1 Hugeburc's cipher. M�unchen, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm. 1086, fol. 71v, lines 4-78 -- Fig. 12.1 Detail from W�urzburg, Universit�atsbibliothek M.p.th.f.79, fol. 1v. -- Fig. 12.2 Detail from Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Hatton 48, fol. 1r. -- Fig. 12.3 Detail from Boulogne-sur-Mer, Biblioth�eque Municipale 74 (82), fol. 53r. -- Fig. 12.4 Detail from Paris, Biblioth�eque Nationale lat. 17177, fol. 8r. -- Fig. 12.5 Detail from Boulogne-sur-Mer, Biblioth�eque Municipale 74 (82), fol. 1r.

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