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Double agents : women and clerical culture in Anglo-Saxon England / Clare A. Lees and Gillian R. Overing.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Religion & culture in the Middle AgesPublication details: Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (266 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780708322321
  • 0708322328
  • 9780708321836
  • 0708321836
  • 9781783163618
  • 1783163615
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Double agents.DDC classification:
  • 829.093823 22
LOC classification:
  • PR275 .L44 2009eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Series Editors' Preface; Preface; Acknowledgements, 2001; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Patristic Maternity: Bede, Hild and Cultural Procreation; Orality, Femininity and the Disappearing Trace in EarlyAnglo-Saxon England; Literacy and Gender in Later Anglo-Saxon England; Figuring the Body: Gender, Performance, Hagiography; Pressing Hard on the 'Breasts' of Scripture: Metaphor andthe Symbolic; Bibliography; Index.
Summary: First printed in 2001 by the University of Pennsylvania Press, this book has been out of print for several years and is highly sought after by researchers in the field of Medieval cultural studies. Double Agents was the first book length study of women in Anglo-Saxon written culture that took on board the insights of contemporary critical theory, especially feminist theory, in order to elucidate the complex challenges of both the absence and presence of women in the historical record.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)296706

Originally published: Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-248) and index.

First printed in 2001 by the University of Pennsylvania Press, this book has been out of print for several years and is highly sought after by researchers in the field of Medieval cultural studies. Double Agents was the first book length study of women in Anglo-Saxon written culture that took on board the insights of contemporary critical theory, especially feminist theory, in order to elucidate the complex challenges of both the absence and presence of women in the historical record.

Print version record.

Series Editors' Preface; Preface; Acknowledgements, 2001; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Patristic Maternity: Bede, Hild and Cultural Procreation; Orality, Femininity and the Disappearing Trace in EarlyAnglo-Saxon England; Literacy and Gender in Later Anglo-Saxon England; Figuring the Body: Gender, Performance, Hagiography; Pressing Hard on the 'Breasts' of Scripture: Metaphor andthe Symbolic; Bibliography; Index.