Feminist Approaches to Early Medieval English Studies / / ed. by Robin Norris, Rebecca Stephenson, Renee Trilling.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• MitwirkendeR: Christie, E. J.,; Conti, Aidan,; Hussey, Matthew T.,; Jorgensen, Alice,; Lee, Christina,; Oswald, Dana M.,; Smith, Scott Thompson,; Sweany, Erin E.,; Thornbury, Emily V.,; Toswell, M. J.,; Voth, Christine,; Weston, Lisa M. C.,; Yeager, Stephen M.,
• HerausgeberIn: Norris, Robin,; Stephenson, Rebecca,; Trilling, Renee,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Knowledge Communities ; 12
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (408 p.)

Scholarship on early medieval England has seen an exponential increase in scholarly work by and about women over the past twenty years, but the field has remained peculiarly resistant to the transformative potential of feminist critique. Since 2016, Medieval Studies has been rocked by conversations...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Introduction
• Metacritical Considerations
• 1 The Lost Victorian Women of Old English Studies
• 2 Embroidered Narratives
• 3 Remembering the Lady of Mercia
• Affect Theory
• 4 Be a Man, Beowulf
• 5 Shame, Disgust and Ælfric’s Masculine Performance
• Treatments of Virginity
• 6 The Ornament of Virginity
• 7 Chaste Bodies and Untimely Virgins
• Medical Discourse
• 8 Monaðgecynd and flewsan
• 9 Dangerous Voices, Erased Bodies
• 10 Women and “Women’s Medicine” in Early Medieval England, from Text to Practice
• Women’s Literacy
• 11 The Literate Memory of Hugeburc of Heidenheim
• 12 A Road Nearly Taken
• 13 “Historical Accuracy,” Anonymity, and Women’s Authorship
• Index