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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