Stealing Obedience - Narratives of Agency and Identity in Later Anglo-Saxon England

Informationen zum Autor Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe is a professor in the Department of English and the director of the Medieval Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley. Klappentext Stealing Obedience explores how a Christian notion of agent action – where freedom incurs responsibility – was a component of identity in the last hundred years of Anglo-Saxon England, and investigates where agency (in the modern sense) might be sought in these narratives. Zusammenfassung Stealing Obedience explores how a Christian notion of agent action – where freedom incurs responsibility – was a component of identity in the last hundred years of Anglo-Saxon England, and investigates where agency (in the modern sense) might be sought in these narratives. Inhaltsverzeichnis Plate Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction:  On Stealing Obedience 1: Dunstan in the Theatre of Choice 2: ‘Esto quod es’: Ælfric’s Colloquy and the Imperatives of Monastic Identity 3: Edith’s Choice 4: Leaving Wilton: Gunhild and the Phantoms of Agency 5: The Silence of Eve Afterword Bibliography Index

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• Authors: &apos, brien O&apos, Katherine keeffe, O&apos, Katherine O''brien O''keeffe, Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, Katherine O''brien O''keeffe
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.04.2012
• EAN: 9780802097071
• ISBN: 978-0-8020-9707-1
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series; Toronto Anglo-Saxon; Toronto Anglo-Saxon Series; Toronto Anglo-Saxon
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies