1st Edition
The Displacement of the Body in ?�lfric's Virgin Martyr Lives
By Alison Gulley
Copyright 2014
160 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Displacement of the Body in Ælfric's Virgin Martyr Lives addresses 10th-century Old English hagiographical translations, from Latin source material, by the abbot and grammarian Ælfric. The vitae of Agnes, Agatha, Lucy, and Eugenia, and the married saints Daria, Basilissa, and Cecilia, included in Ælfric's s Old English Lives of Saints, recount the lives, persecution, and martyrdom of young... Read more
Contents: Introduction: the function of Ælfric's hagiography; The ideal of castitas and the environment of Ælfric’s virgin martyr legends; Marital imagery, Marian allusion, and circumscribed virginity in Ælfric’s Life of Agnes; Private lives and public contexts in Ælfric’s Lives of Agatha and Lucy; Cross-dressing, sex-change, and womanhood in Ælfric’s Life of Eugenia; ’Let us hold firmly to the beautiful treasure’: teaching, learning and salvation in the Passio of Chysanthus and Daria; Conversion and marital vocation in the Passiones of Julian and Basilissa and Cecilia and Valerian; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Alison Gulley is Associate Professor of English at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC, USA.
'[The book] is both accessible to undergraduates approaching the theological debates of the tenth century and a study that contributes to an under-studied area of Anglo-Saxon sanctity. For this reason Gulley's book will certainly be of interest to scholars of hagiography.' Notes and Queries
