The displacement of the body in �lfric's virgin martyr lives / Alison Gulley.
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TextPublisher: Farnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate Publishing Limited ; Burlington VT : Ashgate Publishing Company, [2014]Copyright date: �2014Description: 1 online resource (161 pages)Content type: - text
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- �lfric's virgin martyr lives
- Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham. Lives of saints
- Virginity in literature
- Martyrs in literature
- Marriage in literature
- Conversion in literature
- Conduct of life in literature
- Literature and society -- England -- History
- Christian hagiography -- History -- To 1500
- Christian literature, English (Old) -- History and criticism
- 270.092/2 23
- PR1527 .G85 2014eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- The ideal of castitas and the environment of �lfric's virgin martyr legends -- Marital imagery, Marian allusion, and circumscribed virginity in �lfric's life of Agnes -- Private lives and public contexts in �lfric's lives of Agatha and Lucy -- Cross-dressing, sex-change, and womanhood in �lfric's life of Eugenia -- Conversion and marital vocation in Passio Sanctae Cecilie Virginis -- Conclusion.
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