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- catalog abstract ""Exploring Old English texts ranging from Beowulf to Aelfric's Lives of Saints, this book examines ways that women's monastic, material, and devotional practices in Anglo-Saxon England shaped literary representations of women and femininity. Horner argues that these representations derive from a "discourse" of female monastic enclosure, based on the increasingly strict rules of cloistered confinement that regulated the female religious body in the early Middle Ages. She shows that the female subjects of much Old English literature are enclosed by many layers - literal and figurative, textual, material, discursive, and spatial - all of which image and reinforce the powerful institutions imposed by the Church on the female body. Though it has long been recognized that medieval religious women were enclosed, and that virginity was highly valued, this book is the first to consider the interrelationships of these two positions - that is, how the material practices of female monasticism inform the textual operations of Old English literature."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12221325.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""Exploring Old English texts ranging from Beowulf to Aelfric's Lives of Saints, this book examines ways that women's monastic, material, and devotional practices in Anglo-Saxon England shaped literary representations of women and femininity. Horner argues that these representations derive from a "discourse" of female monastic enclosure, based on the increasingly strict rules of cloistered confinement that regulated the female religious body in the early Middle Ages. She shows that the female subjects of much Old English literature are enclosed by many layers - literal and figurative, textual, material, discursive, and spatial - all of which image and reinforce the powerful institutions imposed by the Church on the female body. Though it has long been recognized that medieval religious women were enclosed, and that virginity was highly valued, this book is the first to consider the interrelationships of these two positions - that is, how the material practices of female monasticism inform the textual operations of Old English literature."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-202) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction -- The Discourse of Enclosure: Inscribing the Feminine in Old English Literature -- Looking Into Enclosure in the Old English Female Lyrics -- Voices From the Margins: Women and Textual Enclosure in Beowulf --Textual/Sexual Violence: The Old English Juliana and the Anglo-Saxon Female Reader -- Bodies and Borders: The Hermeneutics of Enclosure in Elfric's lives of Female Saints -- Conclusion -- Christina of Markyate and Legacies of Enclosure -- Bibliography -- Index.".
- catalog extent "viii, 207 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0791450090 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0791450104 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "SUNY series in medieval studies".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Albany : State University of New York Press,".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog subject "829/.09352042 21".
- catalog subject "Enclosure (Monasticism) England History to 1500.".
- catalog subject "Enclosure (Monasticism)".
- catalog subject "English literature Old English, approximately 450-1100 History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English literature Old English, ca. 450-1100 History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Feminism and literature England History To 1500.".
- catalog subject "PR179.W65 H67 2001".
- catalog subject "Women England History Middle Ages, 500-1500.".
- catalog subject "Women and literature England History To 1500.".
- catalog subject "Women in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction -- The Discourse of Enclosure: Inscribing the Feminine in Old English Literature -- Looking Into Enclosure in the Old English Female Lyrics -- Voices From the Margins: Women and Textual Enclosure in Beowulf --Textual/Sexual Violence: The Old English Juliana and the Anglo-Saxon Female Reader -- Bodies and Borders: The Hermeneutics of Enclosure in Elfric's lives of Female Saints -- Conclusion -- Christina of Markyate and Legacies of Enclosure -- Bibliography -- Index.".
- catalog title "The discourse of enclosure : representing women in Old English literature / by Shari Horner.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".