UID:
almahu_9949517305002882
Format:
1 online resource (410 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789048554317
Series Statement:
Knowledge Communities Ser. ; v.12
Note:
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 Ælfric'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 Æthelthryth -- Lisa M. C. Weston -- Medical Discourse -- 8. Monaðgecynd and flewsan -- Wanted and Unwanted Monthly Courses in Old English Medical Texts -- Dana M. Oswald -- 9. Dangerous Voices, Erased Bodies -- Reassessing the Old English Wifgemædla 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 Æthelflæd 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 Æthelflæd statue sculpted by Luke Perry and raised in 2018.
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Fig. 11.1 Hugeburc's cipher. München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm. 1086, fol. 71v, lines 4-78 -- Fig. 12.1 Detail from Würzburg, Universitätsbibliothek 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, Bibliothèque Municipale 74 (82), fol. 53r. -- Fig. 12.4 Detail from Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale lat. 17177, fol. 8r. -- Fig. 12.5 Detail from Boulogne-sur-Mer, Bibliothèque Municipale 74 (82), fol. 1r.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Norris, Robin Feminist Approaches to Early Medieval English Studies Berlin : Amsterdam University Press,c2023 ISBN 9789463721462
Language:
English
Keywords:
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