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Saints Edith and Æthelthryth: Princesses, Miracle Workers, and their Late Medieval Audience narrates the lives of two Anglo-Saxon princesses who were venerated as saints long after their deaths. St Edith, the daughter of King Edgar, was renowned as a patron of the arts and the church during her lifetime; her posthumous miracles included protection of Wilton Abbey and the English royal family. St Æthelthryth, who retained her virginity through not one but two royal marriages, also worked numerous miracles at her tomb at the Abbey of Ely. The poems, composed at Wilton Abbey in the early fifteenth century, allow us to see how late medieval religious women practised their devotion to early medieval women saints. The Middle English verse texts are presented here in the original and in translation with explanatory notes and glossary. A thorough introduction provides extensive contextualization and analysis of the two poems as well as description of the manuscript and its language and prosody. These primary source texts are important contributions to the study of English history, language, literature, religion, and women's studies.

Christian spirituality --- Edith of Wilton --- Christian women saints --- Christian poetry, English (Middle) --- Saintes chrétiennes --- Poésie chrétienne anglaise (moyen anglais) --- Poetry. --- History and criticism. --- Poésie --- Histoire et critique --- Edith, --- Aethelthryth, --- History and criticism --- Etheldreda, --- Saintes chrétiennes --- Poésie chrétienne anglaise (moyen anglais) --- Poésie --- Edith de Wilton --- Poetry --- Etheldreda --- Christian poetry [English ] (Middle) --- Christian women saints - Poetry --- Christian poetry, English (Middle) - History and criticism --- Etheldreda regina abb. Eliensis --- Editha abb. Wiltoniensis --- Edith, - Saint, - d. ca. 986 - Poetry --- Etheldreda, - Queen of Northumbria, - 630-679 - Poetry --- Edith, - Saint, - d. ca. 986 --- Etheldreda, - Queen of Northumbria, - 630-679 --- Edith (sainte) --- Poésie chrétienne --- Poésie anglaise --- 1100-1500 (moyen anglais)

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This study, part of growing interest in the study of nineteenth-century medievalism and Anglo-Saxonism, closely examines the intersections of race, class, and gender in the teaching of Anglo-Saxon in the American women’s colleges before World War I, interrogating the ways that the positioning of Anglo-Saxon as the historical core of the collegiate English curriculum also silently perpetuated mythologies about Manifest Destiny, male superiority, and the primacy of northern European ancestry in United States culture at large. Analysis of college curricula and biographies of female professors demonstrates the ways that women used Anglo-Saxon as a means to professional opportunity and political expression, especially in the suffrage movement, even as that legitimacy and respectability was freighted with largely unarticulated assumptions of racist and sexist privilege.  The study concludes by connecting this historical analysis with current charged discussions about the intersections of race, class, and gender on college campuses and throughout US culture.  .

Racism in higher education --- English language --- Suffrage --- Women's colleges --- Colleges for women --- Study and teaching (Higher) --- Education, Higher --- Universities and colleges --- Women --- Germanic languages --- Education --- Literature, Medieval. --- Literature, Modern-19th century. --- Education-History. --- Medieval Literature. --- Nineteenth-Century Literature. --- History of Education. --- European literature --- Medieval literature --- Literature, Modern—19th century. --- Education—History. --- Literature, Modern --- Literature --- Teaching --- 19th century. --- History. --- History

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