The Displacement of the Body in Ælfric's Virgin Martyr Lives
The Displacement of the Body in Ælfric's Virgin Martyr Lives

Author: Alison Gulley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-16

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 1317035526

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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 women who renounce sex and, in the first four stories, marriage, to devote their lives to Christian service. They purport to be about the primacy of virginity and the role of the body in attaining sanctity. However, a comparison of the Latin sources with Ælfric's versions suggests that his translation style, characterized by simplifying the most important meanings of the text, omits certain words or entire episodes that foreground suppressed female sexuality as key to sainthood. The Old English Lives de-emphasize the physical nature of faith and highlight the importance of spiritual purity. In this volume, Alison Gulley explores how the context of the Benedictine Reform in late Anglo-Saxon England and Ælfric's commitment to writing for a lay audience resulted in a set of stories depicting a spirituality distinct from physical intactness.

The Third Gender and Aelfric's Lives of Saints
The Third Gender and Aelfric's Lives of Saints

Author: Rhonda L McDaniel

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Published: 2018-03-31

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 1580443109

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In The Third Gender, McDaniel addresses the idea of the "third gender" in early hagiography and Latin treatises on virginity and then examines Aelfric's treatment of gender in his translations of Latin monastic Lives for his non-monastic audiences. She first investigates patristic ideas about a "third gender" by describing this concept within the theoretical frameworks of monasticism and then turns to creating a historical and theological cultural context within which to locate an interpretation of Aelfric's portrayals of male and female saints.

Angles on a Kingdom
Angles on a Kingdom

Author: Joseph Grossi

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2021-07-05

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 1487505736

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Angles on a Kingdom analyses changing attitudes towards East Anglia within early medieval England as revealed in several important literary texts.

Cyborg Saints
Cyborg Saints

Author: Carissa Smith

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-09-02

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 0429513798

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Saints are currently undergoing a resurrection in middle grade and young adult fiction, as recent prominent novels by Socorro Acioli, Julie Berry, Adam Gidwitz, Rachel Hartman, Merrie Haskell, Gene Luen Yang, and others demonstrate. Cyborg Saints: Religion and Posthumanism in Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction makes the radical claim that these holy medieval figures are actually the new cyborgs in that they dethrone the autonomous subject of humanist modernity. While young people navigate political and personal forces, as well as technologies, that threaten to fragment and thingify them, saints show that agency is still possible outside of the humanist construct of subjectivity. The saints of these neomedievalist novels, through living a life vulnerable to the other, attain a distributed agency that accomplishes miracles through bodies and places and things (relics, icons, pilgrimage sites, and ultimately the hagiographic text and its reader) spread across time. Cyborg Saints analyzes MG and YA fiction through the triple lens of posthumanism, neomedievalism, and postsecularism. Cyborg Saints charts new ground in joining religion and posthumanism to represent the creativity and diversity of young people’s fiction.

Ethics and Medievalism
Ethics and Medievalism

Author: Karl Fugelso

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1843843765

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Essays on the modern reception of the Middle Ages, built round the central theme of the ethics of medievalism.

The Displacement of the Body in Ælfric's Virgin Martyr Lives
The Displacement of the Body in Ælfric's Virgin Martyr Lives

Author: Dr Alison Gulley

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2014-02-12

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1409442144

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The virgin martyr vitae in Ælfric's Old English Lives of Saints recount the stories of young women who renounce marriage and sex to devote their lives to Christian service. In this volume, Alison Gulley explores how the context of the Benedictine Reform in late Anglo-Saxon England informed Ælfric's translations of the Latin legends as well as their reception.

Aelfric and the Cult of Saints in Late Anglo-Saxon England
Aelfric and the Cult of Saints in Late Anglo-Saxon England

Author: Mechthild Gretsch

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-01-19

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 113944865X

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The cult of saints was one of the most important aspects of life in the Middle Ages, and it often formed the nucleus of developing group identities in a town, a province or a country. The literature of Anglo-Saxon England is unique among contemporary European literatures in that it features a vast amount of saints' Lives in the vernacular. Of these Lives, Ælfric is the most important author, and his saints' Lives have never previously been explored in their contemporary setting. In this study, Gretsch analyses Ælfric's Lives of five important saints in the light of their cults in Anglo-Saxon England. This gives the reader fascinating glimpses of 'Ælfric at work': he adapts the cults and rewrites the received Latin hagiography of the five saints, with the result that each of their English Lives conveys a distinct message to the contemporary political elite and to a lay audience at large.

Old English Lives of Saints
Old English Lives of Saints

Author: Aelfric

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780674241299

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Old English Lives of Saints, a series composed in the 990s by the Benedictine monk Aelfric, portrays an array of saints--including virgin martyrs, kings, soldiers, and bishops--whose examples modeled courageous faith, self-sacrifice, and individual and collective resistance at a turbulent time when England was under severe Viking attack.

The Cross, the Gospels, and the Work of Art in the Carolingian Age
The Cross, the Gospels, and the Work of Art in the Carolingian Age

Author: Beatrice E. Kitzinger

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-04-04

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1108577016

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In this book, Beatrice E. Kitzinger explores the power of representation in the Carolingian period, demonstrating how images were used to assert the value and efficacy of art works. She focuses on the cross, Christianity's central sign, which simultaneously commemorates sacred history, functions in the present, and prepares for the end of time. It is well recognized that the visual attributes of the cross were designed to communicate its theology relative to history and eschatology; Kitzinger argues that early medieval artists also developed a formal language to articulate its efficacious powers in the present day. Defined through form and text as the sign of the present, the image of the cross articulated the instrumentality of religious objects and built spaces. Whereas medieval and modern scholars have pondered the theological problems posed by representation, Kitzinger here proposes a visual argument that affirms the self-reflexive value of art works in the early medieval West. Introducing little-known sources, she re-evaluates both the image of the cross and the project of book-making in an expanded field of Carolingian painting.

Christian Memories of the Maccabean Martyrs
Christian Memories of the Maccabean Martyrs

Author: D. Joslyn-Siemiatkoski

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2009-10-13

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780230602793

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This book examines texts and materials, ranging from the eastern Mediterranean to northwestern Europe, related to the Maccabean martyrs. Joslyn-Siemiatkoski demonstrates that Christian thinkers constructed memories of the Maccabean martyrs that simultaneously appropriated Jewish traditions and obscured the Jewish origins of Christianity.