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Writing women saints in Anglo-Saxon England
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ISBN: 9781442646124 1442646128 1442664584 1442664576 Year: 2013 Volume: 14 Publisher: Toronto: University of Toronto press,

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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.

Holy men and holy women : Old English prose saints' lives and their contexts
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ISBN: 0585076499 9780585076492 0791428796 079142880X 0791427153 0791427161 143842194X 9780791427163 Year: 1996 Publisher: Albany, N.Y. State University of New York Press

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Child abduction is the most widespread form of child victimization studied. In 1992 alone, a total of 27,553 cases of missing children were reported in New York State through the Missing Children Register. The majority of missing children cases involved suspected runaways. Abduction cases accounted for one percent of the total report; those committed by family members comprised the most frequent form of abduction (as opposed to abduction by strangers). In addition, 88 percent of the children reported missing were age 13 or older, 60 percent were girls, and 58 percent were white. Child abduction is a serious socio-economic problem. Until now there has been no text that addresses the incidence, psychological dimensions, and explanatory models of child abductions. This book fills a need by focusing on variables that assist in confronting and preventing child abductions, including teacher training, public education and awareness, psychotherapeutic techniques for families and friends of abducted children as well as the children themselves.

Holy men and holy women
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ISBN: 0585076073 9780585076072 9780791427156 0791427153 9780791427163 0791427161 1438421702 Year: 1996 Publisher: Albany

The Old English homily and its backgrounds
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ISBN: 0585065136 9780585065137 0873953762 9780873953764 1438421737 Year: 1978 Publisher: Albany State University of New York Press


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A companion to Alfred the Great
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ISBN: 9004283765 9789004283763 9789004274846 9004274847 1322514712 Year: 2015 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill

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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.

Aspects of Jewish culture in the Middle Ages
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ISBN: 1438421699 0585158878 9780585158877 0873951654 9780873951654 9781438421698 Year: 1979 Publisher: Albany, N.Y.

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