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Women Saints' Lives in Old English Prose

Women Saints' Lives in Old English Prose

Donovan, Leslie A.

Paperback

Series: Library of Medieval Women

Literary CriticismGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 0859915689
ISBN13: 9780859915687
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: Dec 23 1999
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.29 Depth: 8.43
Language: English
Translations of eight saints' lives, giving an insight into women's religious culture in Anglo-Saxon England.

Devout, virtuous and independent, the heroines of Old English saints' lives (one of the most popular literary genres of the middle ages) provided exemplars of personal and public inspiration for medieval Christians. The eight lives translated here are the earliest known vernacular accounts of the biographies of thelthryth, Agatha, Agnes, Cecilia, Eugenia, Euphrosyne, Lucy, and Mary of Egypt. They depict women escaping unwanted marriages, communicating with male relatives, acquiring an education, living autonomously as hermits, and achieving positions of leadership; such lives document not only the importance of spiritual faith to early Christian women, but also testify to how these women (and their audience) employed faith as a tool for empowerment.

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