{"product_id":"9781442646124","title":"Writing Women Saints in Anglo-Saxon England","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe twelve essays in this collection advance the contemporary study of the women saints of Anglo-Saxon England by challenging received wisdom and offering alternative \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emethodologies. The work embraces a number of different scholarly approaches, from codicological study to feminist theory. While some contributions are dedicated to the description and \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ereconstruction of female lives of saints and their cults, others explore the broader ideological and cultural investments of the literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe volume concentrates on four major areas: the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efemale saint in the Old English Martyrology, genre including hagiography and homelitic writing, motherhood and chastity, and differing perspectives on lives of virgin martyrs. The essays reveal how \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esaints’ lives that exist on the apparent margins of orthodoxy actually demonstrate a successful literary challenge extending the idea of a holy life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47043053846768,"sku":"9781442646124","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781442646124_p0.jpg?v=1763807505","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781442646124","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}