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The Third Gender and Aelfric's Lives of Saints
Language: en
Pages: 307
Authors: Rhonda L McDaniel
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-31 - Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

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In The Third Gender, McDaniel addresses the idea of the "third gender" in early hagiography and Latin treatises on virginity and then examines Aelfric's treatme
Translating Europe in ?lfric's Lives of Saints
Language: en
Pages: 273
Authors: Luisa Ostacchini
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-07-23 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Translating Europe in ?lfric's 'Lives of Saints' is the first study of the representation of European peoples, places, and geographies in the Lives of Saints, o
Women, Writing and Religion in England and Beyond, 650–1100
Language: en
Pages: 253
Authors: Diane Watt
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-12-12 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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Women's literary histories usually start in the later Middle Ages, but recent scholarship has shown that actually women were at the heart of the emergence of th
Cistercian Stories for Nuns and Monks
Language: en
Pages: 313
Authors: Martha G. Newman
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-30 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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Around the year 1200, the Cistercian Engelhard of Langheim dedicated a collection of monastic stories to a community of religious women. Martha G. Newman explor
Debating with Demons
Language: en
Pages: 261
Authors: Christina M. Heckman
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020 - Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

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A consideration of the theme of demons as teachers in early English literature.
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