Women Saints Lives In Old English Prose PDF Download
Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Women Saints Lives In Old English Prose PDF full book. Access full book title Women Saints Lives In Old English Prose.
| Author | : Leslie A. Donovan |
| Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 160 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780859915687 |
Download Women Saints Lives in Old English Prose Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Translations of eight saints' lives, giving an insight into women's religious culture in Anglo-Saxon England. 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 translationis 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. DONOVAN is Associate Professor at the University of New Mexico.
| Author | : Paul E. Szarmach |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Total Pages | : 369 |
| Release | : 2013-01-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1442646128 |
Download Writing Women Saints in Anglo-Saxon England Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The twelve essays in this collection advance the contemporary study of the women saints of Anglo-Saxon England by challenging received wisdom and offering alternative methodologies. The work embraces a number of different scholarly approaches, from codicological study to feminist theory. While some contributions are dedicated to the description and reconstruction of female lives of saints and their cults, others explore the broader ideological and cultural investments of the literature. The volume concentrates on four major areas: the female saint in the Old English Martyrology, genre including hagiography and homelitic writing, motherhood and chastity, and differing perspectives on lives of virgin martyrs. The essays reveal how saints' lives that exist on the apparent margins of orthodoxy actually demonstrate a successful literary challenge extending the idea of a holy life.
| Author | : Paul E. Szarmach |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780585076072 |
Download Holy Men and Holy Women Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
| Author | : Jonathan Wilcox |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Total Pages | : 294 |
| Release | : 2023-10-02 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1487545703 |
Download Humour in Old English Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Humour in Old English Literature deploys modern theories of humour to explore the style and content of surviving writing from early medieval England. The book analyses Old English riddles, wisdom literature, runic writing, the deployment of rhymes, and humour in heroic poetry, hagiography, and romance. Drawing on a fine-tuned understanding of literary technique, the book presents a revisionist view of Old English literature, partly by reclaiming often-neglected texts and partly by uncovering ironies and embarrassments within well-established works, including Beowulf. Most surprisingly, Jonathan Wilcox engages the large body of didactic literature, pinpointing humour in two anonymous homilies along with extensive use in saints’ lives. Each chapter ends by revealing a different audience that would have shared in the laughter. Wilcox suggests that the humour of Old English literature has been scantily covered in past scholarship because modern readers expect a dour and serious corpus. Humour in Old English Literature aims to break that cycle by highlighting works and moments that are as entertaining now as they were then.
| Author | : Diane Watt |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 229 |
| Release | : 2013-04-18 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 074565763X |
Download Medieval Women's Writing Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Medieval Women's Writing is a major new contribution to our understanding of women's writing in England, 1100-1500. The most comprehensive account to date, it includes writings in Latin and French as well as English, and works for as well as by women. Marie de France, Clemence of Barking, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, and the Paston women are discussed alongside the Old English lives of women saints, The Life of Christina of Markyate, the St Albans Psalter, and the legends of women saints by Osbern Bokenham. Medieval Women's Writing addresses these key questions: Who were the first women authors in the English canon? What do we mean by women's writing in the Middle Ages? What do we mean by authorship? How can studying medieval writing contribute to our understanding of women's literary history? Diane Watt argues that female patrons, audiences, readers, and even subjects contributed to the production of texts and their meanings, whether written by men or women. Only an understanding of textual production as collaborative enables us to grasp fully women's engagement with literary culture. This radical rethinking of early womens literary history has major implications for all scholars working on medieval literature, on ideas of authorship, and on women's writing in later periods. The book will become standard reading for all students of these debates.
| Author | : Paul Szarmach |
| Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
| Total Pages | : 369 |
| Release | : 2013-12-11 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1442664584 |
Download Writing Women Saints in Anglo-Saxon England Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The twelve essays in this collection advance the contemporary study of the women saints of Anglo-Saxon England by challenging received wisdom and offering alternative methodologies. The work embraces a number of different scholarly approaches, from codicological study to feminist theory. While some contributions are dedicated to the description and reconstruction of female lives of saints and their cults, others explore the broader ideological and cultural investments of the literature. The volume concentrates on four major areas: the female saint in the Old English Martyrology, genre including hagiography and homelitic writing, motherhood and chastity, and differing perspectives on lives of virgin martyrs. The essays reveal how saints’ lives that exist on the apparent margins of orthodoxy actually demonstrate a successful literary challenge extending the idea of a holy life.
| Author | : Shari Horner |
| Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
| Total Pages | : 222 |
| Release | : 2001-05-24 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0791490440 |
Download The Discourse of Enclosure Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
2001 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Exploring Old English texts ranging from Beowulf to Ælfric's Lives of Saints, this book examines ways that women's monastic, material, and devotional practices in Anglo-Saxon England shaped literary representations of women and femininity. Horner argues that these representations derive from a "discourse" of female monastic enclosure, based on the increasingly strict rules of cloistered confinement that regulated the female religious body in the early Middle Ages. She shows that the female subjects of much Old English literature are enclosed by many layers—literal and figurative, textual, material, discursive, spatial—all of which image and reinforce the powerful institutions imposed by the Church on the female body. Though it has long been recognized that medieval religious women were enclosed, and that virginity was highly valued, this book is the first to consider the interrelationships of these two positions—that is, how the material practices of female monasticism inform the textual operations of Old English literature.
| Author | : Aelfric |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 572 |
| Release | : 1881 |
| Genre | : Christian saints |
| ISBN | : |
Download Aelfric's Lives of saints Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
| Author | : Jacobus (de Voragine) |
| Publisher | : DS Brewer |
| Total Pages | : 166 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Christian women saints |
| ISBN | : 9780859917711 |
Download Women of the Gilte Legende Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book is a prose translation of a selection of women saints' lives from the Gilte Legende, the Middle English version of Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda Aurea, one of the most influential books to come from the middle ages. Because of its popularity and subject matter, the Gilte Legende was widely read and used as a model for everyday life, including the education of women through examples set by early Christian martyrs. Many of the women saints spoke passionately about their convictions and defended their faith and their bodies to the death. For over 400 years, these amazing vernacular stories have been inaccessible to a wider audience. This book divides the lives of female saints into: the "ryght hooly virgins", who vocally defend their bodies against Roman persecution; "holy mothers", who give up their traditional role to pursue a life of contemplation; the 'repentant sinners', who convert and voice their defiance against a society that demanded silence in women; and the "holy transvestites", who cast off their gender identity to find absolution and salvation. Their lives reach through the ages to speak to a modern audience, academic and non-academic, forcing a re-examination of women's roles in the medieval period. LARISSA TRACY is Adjunct Assistant Professor of English at Georgetown University and George Mason University. Series editor JANE CHANCE
| Author | : Martha G Blalock |
| Publisher | : Medieval Institute Publications |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 2003-03-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1580444229 |
Download Middle English Legends of Women Saints Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Middle English Legends of Women Saints presents a collection of saints' Lives intended to suggest the diversity of possibilities beneath the supposedly fixed and predictable surfaces of the legends, using multiple retellings of the same legend to illustrate that medieval readers and listeners did not just passively receive saints' legends but continually and actively appropriated them. The collection opens with legends about two royal (or supposedly royal) women, Frideswide and Mary Magdelen, and continues with those of three popular virgin martyrs, Margaret of Antioch, Christina of Tyre, and Katherine of Alexandria. The final portion of the collection is devoted to St. Anne, mother of the Virgin Mary. The collection includes a number of relatively unknown texts that have not appeared in print since Horstmann's transcriptions in the nineteenth century and a few that have never before been published.
