Feminist approaches to early Medieval English studies /

Feminist approaches to early Medieval English studies / / edited by Robin Norris, Rebecca Stephenson, and Renée R. Trilling.

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Scholarship on early Medieval England has seen an exponential increase in scholarly work by and about women over the past 20 years, but the field has remained peculiarly resistant to the transformative potential of feminist critique. Since 2016, Medieval Studies has been rocked by conversations abou...

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Superior document:Knowledge communities
TeilnehmendeR:
Norris, Robin, 1974-
Stephenson, Rebecca, 1975-
Trilling, Renée Rebecca,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press,, 2023.
Year of Publication:2023
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Knowledge communities (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Physical Description:1 online resource (408 pages) :; illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).
Notes:Also issued in print: 2023.
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Table of 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 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.
  • 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.

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