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New Readings on Women and Early Medieval English Literature and Culture : Cross-Disciplinary Studies in Honour of Helen Damico / ed. by Helene Scheck, Christine E. Kozikowski.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: CARMEN monographs and studiesPublisher: Leeds : ARC Humanities Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (302 p.) : 14Content type:
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  • 9781641893329
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820.9/001 23/eng/20230216
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Note from the Editors -- Introduction: Feminism and Early English Studies Now -- PART ONE: LITERACY AND MATERIAL CULTURE -- 1. Anglo-Saxon Women, Woman, and Womanhood -- 2. Beyond Valkyries: Drinking Horns in Anglo- Saxon Women’s Graves -- 3. Embodied Literacy: Paraliturgical Performance in the Life of Saint Leoba -- 4. Imagining the Lost Libraries of Anglo- Saxon Double Monasteries -- PART TWO: ENGENDERING MARRIAGE AND FAMILY -- 5. A Textbook Stance on Marriage: The Versus ad coniugem in Anglo-Saxon England -- 6. The Circumcision and Weaning of Isaac: The Cuts that Bind -- 7. Saintly Mothers and Mothers of Saints -- 8. Playing with Memories: Emma of Normandy, Cnut, and the Spectacle of Ælfheah’s Corpus -- PART THREE: WOMEN OF THE BEOWULF MANUSCRIPT -- 9. The Missing Women of the Beowulf Manuscript -- 10. Boundaries Embodied: An Ecofeminist Reading of the Old English Judith -- 11. Listen to the Woman: Reading Wealhtheow as Stateswoman -- 12. Reading Grendel’s Mother -- PART FOUR: WOMEN AND ANGLO- SAXON STUDIES -- 13. Female Agency in Early Anglo- Saxon Studies: The “Nuns of Tavistock” and Elizabeth Elstob -- 14. The First Female Anglo- Saxon Professors -- Select Bibliography -- Index of Manuscripts -- General Index
Summary: ‹I›New Readings on Women and Early Medieval English Literature and Culture‹/I› showcases current and original scholarship relating to women in Early Medieval English culture and in Early Medieval English studies and promises to stimulate new work in those areas. Recognizing the plasticity of gender structures, roles, and relations in Early Medieval English literature and culture as well as within the modern discipline of Early Medieval English Studies, the essays reveal pluralities of gender bequeathed to us and encourage us to rethink power/gender dynamics in our present moment.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Note from the Editors -- Introduction: Feminism and Early English Studies Now -- PART ONE: LITERACY AND MATERIAL CULTURE -- 1. Anglo-Saxon Women, Woman, and Womanhood -- 2. Beyond Valkyries: Drinking Horns in Anglo- Saxon Women’s Graves -- 3. Embodied Literacy: Paraliturgical Performance in the Life of Saint Leoba -- 4. Imagining the Lost Libraries of Anglo- Saxon Double Monasteries -- PART TWO: ENGENDERING MARRIAGE AND FAMILY -- 5. A Textbook Stance on Marriage: The Versus ad coniugem in Anglo-Saxon England -- 6. The Circumcision and Weaning of Isaac: The Cuts that Bind -- 7. Saintly Mothers and Mothers of Saints -- 8. Playing with Memories: Emma of Normandy, Cnut, and the Spectacle of Ælfheah’s Corpus -- PART THREE: WOMEN OF THE BEOWULF MANUSCRIPT -- 9. The Missing Women of the Beowulf Manuscript -- 10. Boundaries Embodied: An Ecofeminist Reading of the Old English Judith -- 11. Listen to the Woman: Reading Wealhtheow as Stateswoman -- 12. Reading Grendel’s Mother -- PART FOUR: WOMEN AND ANGLO- SAXON STUDIES -- 13. Female Agency in Early Anglo- Saxon Studies: The “Nuns of Tavistock” and Elizabeth Elstob -- 14. The First Female Anglo- Saxon Professors -- Select Bibliography -- Index of Manuscripts -- General Index

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‹I›New Readings on Women and Early Medieval English Literature and Culture‹/I› showcases current and original scholarship relating to women in Early Medieval English culture and in Early Medieval English studies and promises to stimulate new work in those areas. Recognizing the plasticity of gender structures, roles, and relations in Early Medieval English literature and culture as well as within the modern discipline of Early Medieval English Studies, the essays reveal pluralities of gender bequeathed to us and encourage us to rethink power/gender dynamics in our present moment.

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