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Double Agents: Women and Clerical Culture in Anglo-Saxon England (Middle Ages Series)

By Clare A. Lees , Gillian R. Overing

Book information

Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Year
2001
ISBN
9780812236286, 0812236289
LCC
PR275.R4 L44 2001
Open Library ID
OL3944823M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (1859637 bytes)
Series
Middle Ages Series
Pages
286\286
Topic
History
Time added
2013-05-25 10:35:00

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.

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