Alison Gulley

The Displacement of the Body in Ælfric's Virgin Martyr Lives

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Produktbeschreibung

The virgin martyr vitae in ÿlfric's Old English Lives of Saints recount the stories of young women who renounce marriage and sex to devote their lives to Christian service. In this volume, Alison Gulley explores how the context of the Benedictine Reform in late Anglo-Saxon England informed ÿlfric's translations of the Latin legends as well as their reception.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9781409442141
• ISBN-10: 1409442144
• Artikelnr.: 41240507

Autorenporträt

Alison Gulley is Associate Professor of English at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: the function of Ã
lfric's hagiography; The ideal of castitas and the environment of Ã
lfric's virgin martyr legends; Marital imagery, Marian allusion, and circumscribed virginity in Ã
lfric's Life of Agnes; Private lives and public contexts in Ã
lfric's Lives of Agatha and Lucy; Cross-dressing, sex-change, and womanhood in Ã
lfric's Life of Eugenia; 'Let us hold firmly to the beautiful treasure': teaching, learning and salvation in the Passio of Chysanthus and Daria; Conversion and marital vocation in the Passiones of Julian and Basilissa and Cecilia and Valerian; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.