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Devout, virtuous and independent, the heroines of Old English saints lives (one of the most popular literary genres of the middle ages) provided exemplars of personal and public inspiration for medieval Christians. The eight lives translated here are the earliest known vernacular accounts of the biographies of ?thelthryth, Agatha, Agnes, Cecilia, Eugenia, Euphrosyne, Lucy, and Mary of Egypt. They depict women escaping unwanted marriages, communicating with male relatives, acquiring an education, living autonomously as hermits, and achieving positions of leadership; such lives document not only the importance of spiritual faith to early Christian women, but also testify to how these women (and their audience) employed faith as a tool for empowerment. Each life is preceded by a brief description of the saints cult from its early Christian origins to its presence in Anglo-Saxon culture. The translation is accompanied by an introduction establishing the general background for the genre, the conventions of women saints lives, and womens religious culture in Anglo-Saxon England; and an interpretive essay exploring the relationships between explicit presentations of the female body and the strength of spiritual authority as exhibited in these texts completes the volume.LESLIE A. DONOVANis Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico.

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title:Women Saints Lives in Old English Prose Library of Medieval Women, 1369-9652
author:Donovan, Leslie A.
publisher:Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
isbn10 | asin:0859915689
print isbn13:9780859915687
ebook isbn13:9780585213811
language:English
subjectChristian women saints--Biography--Early works to 1800, Christian literature, English (Old)
publication date:2000
lcc:BX4656.W65 2000eb
ddc:270.2/092/2
subject:Christian women saints--Biography--Early works to 1800, Christian literature, English (Old)
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Library of Medieval Women
Women Saints' Lives in Old English Prose
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Library of Medieval Women ISSN 13699652
Series Editor: Jane Chance
Already published
Christine de Pizan's Letter of Othea to Hector, Jane Chance, 1990
The Writings of Margaret of Oingt, Medieval Prioress and Mystic, Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, 1990
Saint Bride and her Book: Birgitta of Sweden's Revelations, Julia Bolton Holloway, 1992
The Memoirs of Helene Kottanner (14391440), Maya Bijvoet Williamson, 1998
The Writings of Teresa de Cartagena, Dayle Seidenspinner-Nez, 1998
Julian of Norwich: Revelations of Divine Love and The Motherhood of God, Frances Beer, 1998
Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: A Florilegium of her Works, Katharina M. Wilson, 1998
Hildegard of Bingen: On Natural Philosophy and Medicine: Selections from Cause et cure, Margret Berger, 1999
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Women Saints' Lives in Old English Prose
Translated from Old English with Introduction, Notes and Interpretive Essay
Leslie A. Donovan
University of New Mexico
D.S. BREWER
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Translation and editorial matter Leslie A. Donovan 1999
All Rights Reserved. Except as permitted under current legislation no part of this work may be photocopied, stored in a retrieval system, published, performed in public, adapted, broadcast, transmitted, recorded or reproduced in any form or by any means, without the prior permission of the copyright owner
First published 1999
D. S. Brewer, Cambridge
ISBN 0 85991 568 9
D. S. Brewer is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd
PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF, UK
and of Boydell & Brewer Inc.
PO Box 41026, Rochester, NY 14604-4126, USA
website: http://www.boydell.co.uk
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Women saints lives in Old English prose / translated from Old English
with introduction, notes, and interpretive essay, Leslie A. Donovan.
p. cm. (Library of medieval women, ISSN 1369-9652)
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN 0-85991-568-9 (pbk: alk. paper)
1. Christian women saints Biography Early works to 1800.
2. Christian literature, English (Old) I. Donovan, Leslie A.,
1957- . II. Series.
BX4656.W65 2000
270.2'092'2 - dc21 99-40572
This publication is printed on acid-free paper
Printed in Great Britain by
Athenum Press, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear
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CONTENTS
Introduction
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Origin and Development of Saints' Lives in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
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Traditions and Conventions of Women Saints' Lives
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Religious Background for Saints' Lives in Anglo-Saxon England
15
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Women in Anglo-Saxon Religion and Culture
19
Note to the Translations
25
Abbreviations and Key to Latin Sources
27
Women Saints' Lives
29
thelthryth
31
Agatha
37
Agnes
45
Cecilia
57
Eugenia
67
Euphrosyne
79
Lucy
91
Mary of Egypt
97
Interpretive Essay
121
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