The Third Gender And Aelfric S Lives Of Saints

Author : Rhonda L McDaniel
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580443104

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The Third Gender and Aelfric's Lives of Saints by Rhonda L McDaniel Pdf

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.

Author : Martha G. Newman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812297584

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Cistercian Stories for Nuns and Monks by Martha G. Newman Pdf

Around the year 1200, the Cistercian Engelhard of Langheim dedicated a collection of monastic stories to a community of religious women. Martha G. Newman explores how this largely unedited collection of tales about Cistercian monks illuminates the religiosity of Cistercian nuns. As did other Cistercian storytellers, Engelhard recorded the miracles and visions of the order's illustrious figures, but he wrote from Franconia, in modern Germany, rather than the Cistercian heartland. His extant texts reflect his interactions with non-Cistercian monasteries and with Langheim's patrons rather than celebrating Bernard of Clairvaux. Engelhard was conservative, interested in maintaining traditional Cistercian patterns of thought. Nonetheless, by offering to women a collection of narratives that explore the oral qualities of texts, the nature of sight, and the efficacy of sacraments, Engelhard articulated a distinctive response to the social and intellectual changes of his period. In analyzing Engelhard's stories, Newman uncovers an understudied monastic culture that resisted the growing emphasis on the priestly administration of the sacraments and the hardening of gender distinctions. Engelhard assumed that monks and nuns shared similar interests and concerns, and he addressed his audiences as if they occupied a space neither fully sacerdotal nor completely lay, neither scholastic nor unlearned, and neither solely male nor only female. His exemplary narratives depict the sacramental value of everyday objects and behaviors whose efficacy relied more on individual spiritual formation than on sacerdotal action. By encouraging nuns and monks to imagine connections between heaven and earth, Engelhard taught faith as a learned disposition. Newman's study demonstrates that scholastic questions about signs, sacraments, and sight emerged in a narrative form within late twelfth-century monastic communities.

Author : Elizabeth L'Estrange,Alison More
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317065920

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Representing Medieval Genders and Sexualities in Europe by Elizabeth L'Estrange,Alison More Pdf

Transcending both academic disciplines and traditional categories of analysis, this collection illustrates the ways genders and sexualities could be constructed, subverted and transformed. Focusing on areas such as literature, hagiography, history, and art history, from the Anglo-Saxon period to the early sixteenth century, the contributors examine the ways men and women lived, negotiated, and challenged prevailing conceptions of gender and sexual identity. In particular, their papers explore textual constructions and transformations of religious and secular masculinities and femininities; visual subversions of gender roles; gender and the exercise of power; and the role sexuality plays in the creation of gender identity. The methodologies which are used in this volume are relevant both to specialists of the Middle Ages and early modern periods, and to scholars working more broadly in fields that draw on contemporary gender studies.

Author : Dr Alison More,Dr Elizabeth L'Estrange
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781409486886

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Representing Medieval Genders and Sexualities in Europe by Dr Alison More,Dr Elizabeth L'Estrange Pdf

Transcending both academic disciplines and traditional categories of analysis, this collection illustrates the ways genders and sexualities could be constructed, subverted and transformed. Focusing on areas such as literature, hagiography, history, and art history, from the Anglo-Saxon period to the early sixteenth century, the contributors examine the ways men and women lived, negotiated, and challenged prevailing conceptions of gender and sexual identity. In particular, their papers explore textual constructions and transformations of religious and secular masculinities and femininities; visual subversions of gender roles; gender and the exercise of power; and the role sexuality plays in the creation of gender identity. The methodologies which are used in this volume are relevant both to specialists of the Middle Ages and early modern periods, and to scholars working more broadly in fields that draw on contemporary gender studies.

Author : Paul E. Szarmach
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1996-10-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781438421704

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Holy Men and Holy Women by Paul E. Szarmach Pdf

This is a collection of essays on the literature of "saints' lives" in Anglo-Saxon literature.

Author : Paul Szarmach
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442664586

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Writing Women Saints in Anglo-Saxon England by Paul Szarmach Pdf

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.

Author : Aelfric
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:984350759

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Aelfric's lives of saints by Aelfric Pdf

Author : Paul Cavill
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 0859918416

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The Christian Tradition in Anglo-Saxon England by Paul Cavill Pdf

Essays exploring a wide array of sources that show the importance of Christian ideas and influences in Anglo-Saxon England. A unique and important contribution to both teaching and scholarship. Professor Elaine Treharne, Stanford University. This is a collection of essays exploring a wide array of sources that show the importance ofChristian ideas and influences in Anglo-Saxon England. The range of treatment is exceptionally diverse. Some of the essays develop new approaches to familiar texts, such as Beowulf, The Wanderer and The Seafarer; others deal with less familiar texts and genres to illustrate the role of Christian ideas in a variety of contexts, from preaching to remembrance of the dead, and from the court of King Cnut to the monastic library. Some of the essays are informative, providing essential background material for understanding the nature of the Bible, or the distinction between monastic and cleric in Anglo-Saxon England; others provide concise surveys of material evidence orgenres; others still show how themes can be used in constructing and evaluating courses teaching the tradition. Contributors: GRAHAM CAIE, PAUL CAVILL, CATHERINE CUBITT, JUDITH JESCH, RICHARD MARSDEN, ELISABETH OKASHA, BARBARA C. RAW, PHILIPPA SEMPER, DABNEY BANKERT, SANTHA BHATTACHARJI, HUGH MAGENNIS, MARY SWAN, JONATHAN M. WOODING.

Author : Alison Gulley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317035527

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The Displacement of the Body in Ælfric's Virgin Martyr Lives by Alison Gulley Pdf

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.

Author : Mechthild Gretsch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139448659

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Aelfric and the Cult of Saints in Late Anglo-Saxon England by Mechthild Gretsch Pdf

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.

Author : Allen J. Frantzen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0226260925

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Before the Closet by Allen J. Frantzen Pdf

Examining the intolerance of homosexuality in the early medieval period, this study challenges the long-held belief that the early Middle Ages tolerated same-sex relations. The work focuses on Anglo-Saxon literature but also includes examinations of contemporary opera, dance and theatre.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:313385730

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Aelfric's lives of saints by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael Lapidge
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0198131836

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The Cult of St Swithun by Michael Lapidge Pdf

St Swithun was an obscure ninth-century bishop of Winchester about whom little was, and is, known. But following the translation of his relics from a conspicuous tomb into the Old Minster, Winchester, on 15 July 971, the massive rebuilding of the cathedral, and a vigorous publicity campaign byBishop Aethelwold (963-84), St Swithun became one of the most popular and important English saints, whose cult was widespread not only in England but also in Ireland, Scandinavia, and France. The present volume includes new and full editions of all the relevant texts - hagiographical, liturgical,and historical - in Latin, Old English, and Middle English, many of which have never been published before: these illuminate the origins and development of St Swithun's cult. No dossier of an important English saint has been published on this scale until now: the wealth of this volume sheds newlight not only on St Swithun himself, but also on the times during which his cult was at the peak of its popularity.

Author : Rebecca Stephenson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442650589

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The Politics of Language by Rebecca Stephenson Pdf

Comparing works by the two most prolific authors of the era, Byrhtferth of Ramsey and AElfric of Eynsham, Rebecca Stephenson explains the politics that encouraged the simultaneous development of a simple English style and an esoteric Latin style.

Author : Alexander R. Rumble
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781843837008

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Leaders of the Anglo-Saxon Church by Alexander R. Rumble Pdf

Essays bring out the important and complex roles played by Anglo-Saxon churchmen, including Bede and lesser-known figures. Both episcopal and abbatial authority were of fundamental importance to the development of the Christian church in Anglo-Saxon England. Bishops and heads of monastic houses were invested with a variety of types of power and influence. Their actions, decisions, and writings could change not only their own institutions, but also the national church, while their interaction with the king and his court affected wider contemporary society. Theories of ecclesiastical leadership were expounded in contemporary texts and documents. But how far did image or ideal reflect reality? How much room was there for individuals to use their office to promote new ideas? The papers in this volumeillustrate the important roles played by individual leading ecclesiastics in England, both within the church and in the wider political sphere, from the late seventh to the mid eleventh century. The undeniable authority of Bede and Bishop Æthelwold is demonstrated but also the influence of less-familiar figures such as Bishop Wulfsige of Sherborne, Archbishop Ecgberht of York and St Leoba. The book draws on both textual and material evidence to show the influence (by both deed and reputation) of powerful personalities not only on the developing institutions of the English church but also on the secular politics of their time. Contributors: Alexander R. Rumble, Nicholas J.Higham, Martyn J. Ryan, Cassandra Rhodes, Allan Scott McKinley, Dominik Wassenhoven, Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Debby Banham, Joyce Hill.