Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe

Stealing Obedience

Narratives of Agency and Identity in Later Anglo-Saxon England

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Produktbeschreibung

Stealing Obedience explores how a Christian notion of agent action – where freedom incurs responsibility – was a component of identity in the last hundred years of Anglo-Saxon England, and investigates where agency (in the modern sense) might be sought in these narratives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 160mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780802097071
• ISBN-10: 0802097073
• Artikelnr.: 33620882

Autorenporträt

Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe is a professor in the Department of English and the director of the Medieval Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley.

Inhaltsangabe

Plate
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