| Double Agents: Women and Clerical Culture in Anglo-Saxon England Contributor(s): Lees, Clare A. (Author), Overing, Gillian R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0708321836 ISBN-13: 9780708321836 Publisher: University of Wales Press OUR PRICE: $84.15 Product Type: Hardcover Published: August 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christian Rituals & Practice - General |
| Dewey: 829.093 |
| Series: University of Wales Press - Religion and Culture in the Midd |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" 256 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: First published in 2001, Double Agents was the first book-length study of women in Anglo-Saxon written culture that took on the insights provided by contemporary critical and feminist theory, and it quickly established itself as a standard. Now available again, it complicates the exclusion of women from the historical record of Anglo-Saxon England by tackling the deeper questions behind how the feminine is modeled, used, and made metaphoric in Anglo-Saxon texts, even when the women themselves are absent. |