Stealing Obedience : : Narratives of Agency and Identity in Later Anglo-Saxon England / / Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe.
Narratives of monastic life in Anglo-Saxon England depict individuals as responsible agents in the assumption and performance of religious identities. To modern eyes, however, many of the 'choices' they make would actually appear to be compulsory. Stealing Obedience explores how a Christia...
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©2012 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: On Stealing Obedience
- 1. Dunstan in the Theatre of Choice
- 2. 'Esto quod es': Ælfric's Colloquy and the Imperatives of Monastic Identity
- 3. Edith's Choice
- 4. Leaving Wilton: Gunhild and the Phantoms of Agency
- 5. The Silence of Eve
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index