Stealing Obedience: Narratives of Agency and Identity in Later Anglo-Saxon England

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Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe looks at Benedictine monasticism through the writings of Ælfric, Anselm, Osbern of Canterbury, and Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, as well as liturgy, canon and civil law, chronicle, dialogue, and hagiography, to analyse the practice of obedience in the monastic context. Stealing Obedience brings a highly original approach to the study of Anglo-Saxon narratives of obedience in the adoption of religious identity."--Pub. desc. Cover Contents Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: On Stealing Obedience 1 Dunstan in the Theatre of Choice 2 ‘Esto quod es’: Ælfric’s Colloquy and the Imperatives of Monastic Identity 3 Edith’s Choice 4 Leaving Wilton: Gunhild and the Phantoms of Agency 5 The Silence of Eve Afterword Bibliography Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y