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Stealing Obedience: Narratives of Agency in Anglo-Saxon England

By Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe

Book information

Publisher
University of Cambridge, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic
Year
2009
ISBN
0955456894, 9780955456893
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1247719 bytes)
Series
H. M. Chadwick Memorial Lectures, 19
Pages
28\28
Topic
Literature
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2024-12-20 03:02:42

Description

What follows attends to the discourse of monastic obedience driving three different narratives: the first of an abbot and a professed monk, the second of an oblate, and the third of a man contemplating conversion to monastic life. What I should like to argue is that attention to these narratives of obedience in both the polish of their surfaces and the fractures those surfaces conceal will show an intimate interconnection between monastic identity and a construction of agency markedly different from our own.

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