Double Agents - Women and Clerical Culture in Anglo-Saxon England

Informationen zum Autor Clare A. Lees is Professor of Medieval Literature at King's College London. Gillian R. Overing is Professor of English at Wake Forest University. They share research interests in early medieval literature with particular emphases on gender! sexuality and religious studies. They have collaborated on a number of projects including Double Agents (2001) and! most recently! A Place to Believe in: Locating Medieval Landscapes (2006. Klappentext Offers a 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. ""Double Agents" is an innovative and provocative study, adventurous in its choice of texts and stimulating in its lively and detailed engagement with them. The authors' exploration of the complex relation of the feminine, orality and literacy will undoubtedly influence the direction of future critical enquiry."--Stephanie Hollis, University of Auckland Zusammenfassung Offers a 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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• Authors: Claire Lees, Claire Overing Lees, Clare A. Lees, Clare A. Overing Lees, Lees Claire, LEES CLARE A OVERING GILLIAN R, Gillian R. Overing
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2009
• EAN: 9780708321836
• ISBN: 978-0-7083-2183-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages; University of Wales Press - Re; Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; England, Women, Culture, RELIGION / History, Double, History of Religion, agents, Anglo, Saxon, Clerical