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The twelve essays in this collection advance the contemporary study of the women saints of Anglo-Saxon England by challenging received wisdom and offering alternative methodologies. The work embraces a number of different scholarly approaches, from codicological study to feminist theory. While some contributions are dedicated to the description and reconstruction of female lives of saints and their cults, others explore the broader ideological and cultural investments of the literature. The volume concentrates on four major areas: the female saint in the Old English Martyrology, genre including hagiography and homelitic writing, motherhood and chastity, and differing perspectives on lives of virgin martyrs. The essays reveal how saints' lives that exist on the apparent margins of orthodoxy actually demonstrate a successful literary challenge extending the idea of a holy life.

Christian literature, English (Old) --- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) --- English literature --- Women and literature --- Christian hagiography --- Christian women saints in literature. --- Women in literature. --- Mothers in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History --- Martyrologium (Anglo-Saxon) --- Christian literature, English (Old) - History and criticism. --- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) - History and criticism. --- English literature - Old English, ca. 450-1100 - History and criticism. --- Women and literature - England - History - To 1500. --- Christian hagiography - History - To 1500. --- Anglo-Saxons --- Women saints in literature. --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Martyrologium Saxonice --- Martyrology, Old English --- Old English Martyrology --- Altenglische Martyrologium --- Menologium (Anglo-Saxon) --- Old English metrical calendar --- England. --- Angleterre --- Anglii͡ --- Anglija --- Engeland --- Inghilterra --- Inglaterra

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"Medieval England is a topic that has perennial fascination: King Arthur, Robin Hood, chivalry, and Beowulf seem to have obtained a permanent place in high-school reading lists and the popular imagination. Spanning the 5th through the 15th century, this encyclopedia covers broad topics such as music, women, and language, as well as specific topics such as people, famous buildings, printing, monastic orders, prostitution, and stained glass. There are helpful charts of the kings and queens of England, archbishops of Canterbury and York, and the popes. Black-and-white illustrations abound, and each entry contains a bibliography for further research."--"Outstanding Reference Sources : the 1999 Selection of New Titles", American Libraries, May 1999. Comp. by the Reference Sources Committee, RUSA, ALA."

Great Britain --- England --- Grande-Bretagne --- Angleterre --- History --- Encyclopedias --- Civilization --- Histoire --- Encyclopédies --- Civilisation --- Middle Ages --- 942 <03> --- Geschiedenis van Engeland en Groot-Brittannië--Naslagwerken. Referentiewerken --- -Encyclopedias. --- -History --- -Middle Ages --- -942 <03> --- 942 <03> Geschiedenis van Engeland en Groot-Brittannië--Naslagwerken. Referentiewerken --- -England --- -Great Britain --- Encyclopédies --- Anglii︠a︡ --- Inghilterra --- Engeland --- Inglaterra --- Anglija --- England and Wales --- Encyclopedias. --- Medieval period, 1066-1485 --- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066 --- 1066-1485 --- To 1066 --- Great Britain - History - Medieval period, 1066-1485 - Encyclopedias. --- Great Britain - History - Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066 - Encyclopedias. --- England - Civilization - 1066-1485 - Encyclopedias. --- England - Civilization - To 1066 - Encyclopedias. --- England - Civilization - 1066-1485 - Encyclopedias --- England - Civilization - To 1066 - Encyclopedias --- Great Britain - History - Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066 --- Great Britain - History - Medieval period, 1066-1485

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Eleven major scholars of the Anglo-Saxon period consider Alfred the Great, his cultural milieu, and his achievements. With revised or revived views of the Alfredian revival, the contributors help set the agenda for future work on a most challenging period. The collection features the methods of history, art history, and literature in a newer key and with an interdisciplinary view on a period that offers less evidence than inference. Major themes linking the essays include authorship, translation practice and theory, patristic influence, Continental connections, and advances in textual criticism. The Alfredian moment has always surprised scholars because of its intellectual reach and its ambition. The contributors to this collection describe how we must now understand that ambition.

Alfred, --- Aelfred, --- Alfred the Great, --- Influence. --- In literature. --- Great Britain --- History --- Grande-Bretagne --- Histoire