Double Agents: Women and Clerical Culture in Anglo-Saxon England (University of Wales Press - Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages) PDF
Preview Double Agents: Women and Clerical Culture in Anglo-Saxon England (University of Wales Press - Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages)
RELIGION AND CULTURE IN THE MIDDLE AGES Double Agents Women and Clerical Culture in Anglo-Saxon England CLARE A. LEES AND GILLIAN R. OVERING University of Wales Press 00 Prelims 18_5_09.qxp:00 Prelims Anchorites 5_5_05.qxd 17/8/09 15:58 Page i RELIGIONANDCULTUREINTHEMIDDLEAGES DoubleAgents 00 Prelims 18_5_09.qxp:00 Prelims Anchorites 5_5_05.qxd 17/8/09 15:58 Page ii SeriesEditors DenisRenevey(Universityof Lausanne) DianeWatt(AberystwythUniversity) EditorialBoard MiriRubin(QueenMary,Universityof London) Jean-ClaudeSchmitt(ÉcoledesHautesÉtudesen SciencesSociales,Paris) FionaSomerset(DukeUniversity) ChristianiaWhitehead(Universityof Warwick) 00 Prelims 18_5_09.qxp:00 Prelims Anchorites 5_5_05.qxd 17/8/09 15:58 Page iii RELIGIONANDCULTUREINTHEMIDDLEAGES Double Agents Women and Clerical Culture in Anglo-Saxon England CLAREA.LEESANDGILLIANR.OVERING UNIVERSITYOFWALESPRESS CARDIFF 2009 00 Prelims 18_5_09.qxp:00 Prelims Anchorites 5_5_05.qxd 17/8/09 15:58 Page iv ©ClareA.LeesandGillianR.Overing,2009 Allrightsreserved.Nopartof thisbookmaybereproduced,storedina retrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans,electronic, mechanical,photocopying,recordingorotherwise,withoutclearancefrom theUniversityofWalesPress,10ColumbusWalk,BrigantinePlace,Cardiff, CF104UP. www.uwp.co.uk BritishLibraryCataloguing-in-PublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. ISBN978-0-7083-2183-6 e-ISBN978-0-7083-2232-1 Therightsof ClareA.LeesandGillianR.Overingtobeidentifiedas authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with sections77,78and79oftheCopyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988. PrintedinGreatBritainbyCPIAntonyRowe,Chippenham,Wiltshire 00 Prelims 18_5_09.qxp:00 Prelims Anchorites 5_5_05.qxd 17/8/09 15:58 Page v Forourmothers WinifredPaulineLeesandRoseOvering 00 Prelims 18_5_09.qxp:00 Prelims Anchorites 5_5_05.qxd 17/8/09 15:58 Page vi 00 Prelims 18_5_09.qxp:00 Prelims Anchorites 5_5_05.qxd 17/8/09 15:58 Page vii C ONTENTS SeriesEditors’Preface ix Preface xi Acknowledgements,2001 xv ListofAbbreviations xvii Introduction 1 1 PatristicMaternity:Bede,HildandCulturalProcreation 19 2 Orality,FemininityandtheDisappearingTraceinEarly Anglo-SaxonEngland 56 3 LiteracyandGenderinLaterAnglo-SaxonEngland 101 4 FiguringtheBody:Gender,Performance,Hagiography 149 5 PressingHardonthe‘Breasts’of Scripture:Metaphorand theSymbolic 204 Bibliography 231 Index 249 00 Prelims 18_5_09.qxp:00 Prelims Anchorites 5_5_05.qxd 17/8/09 15:58 Page viii
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