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This study of literature by clerics who were writing to, for, or aboutAnglo-Saxon women in the 8th and early 9th centuries suggests thatthe position of women had already declined sharply before the Conquest a claim at variance with the traditional scholarly view. Stephanie Hollis argues that Pope Gregorys letter to Augustine and Theodores Penitentialimplicitly convey the early churchs view of women as subordinate to men, and maintains that much early church writing reflects conceptions of womanhood that had hardened into established commonplace by the later middle ages. To support her argument the author examines the indigenous position of women prior to the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity, and considers reasons for the early churchs concessions in respect of women. Emblematic of developments in the conversion period, the establishment and eventual suppression of abbess-ruled double monasteries forms a special focus of this study. STEPHANIE HOLLIS is Senior Lecturer in Early English, Universityof Auckland, New Zealand.
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Anglo-Saxon Women and the Church : Sharing a Common Fate
author
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Hollis, Stephanie.
publisher
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
isbn10 | asin
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0851153178
print isbn13
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9780851153179
ebook isbn13
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9780585177601
language
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English
subject
Women in Christianity--History, English literature--Old English, ca. 450-1100--History and criticism, Women--England--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500, Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500, Civilization, Anglo-Saxon.
publication date
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1992
lcc
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BV639.W7H58 1992eb
ddc
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274.2/03/082
subject
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Women in Christianity--History, English literature--Old English, ca. 450-1100--History and criticism, Women--England--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500, Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500, Civilization, Anglo-Saxon.
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Anglo-Saxon Women and the Church Sharing a Common Fate
This study of literature by clerics who were writing to, for, or about Anglo-Saxon women in the eighth and early ninth centuries suggests that the position of women had already declined sharply before the Conquest a claim at variance with the traditional scholarly view, which is that the undermining of women's status took place in the years following the Norman invasion. Pope Gregory's letter to Augustine and Theodore's Penitential implicitly convey the early church's view of women as subordinate to men; Aldhelm's De Virginitate, the Boniface correspondence, Bede's History, the early Lives of Cuthbert and Wilfrid, and Rudolph of Fulda's Life of the missionary nun Leoba all reflect conceptions of womanhood that had hardened into established commonplace by the later middle ages. In support of her claim, Stephanie Hollis also examines the indigenous position of women prior to the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity, and considers reasons for the early church's concessions in respect of women. Emblematic of developments in the conversion period, the establishment and eventual suppression of abbess-ruled double monasteries form a special focus of this study.
STEPHANIE HOLLIS is Senior Lecturer in Early English, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
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Anglo-Saxon Women and the Church Sharing a Common Fate
Stephanie Hollis
THE BOYDELL PRESS
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Stephanie Hollis 1992
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 1992 by The Boydell Press, Woodbridge Reprinted 1998
The Boydell Press is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF and of Boydell & Brewer Inc. PO Box 41026, Rochester, NY 14604-4126, USA
ISBN 0 85115 317 8
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Hollis, Stephanie Anglo-Saxon Women and the Church: Sharing a Common Fate I. Title 942.01082 ISBN 0-85115-317-8
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hollis, Stephanie. Anglo-Saxon women and the church : sharing a common fate / Stephanie Hollis. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-85115-317-8 1. Women in Christianity - History. 2. Women - England History. 3. English literature - Old English, ca. 450-1100 - History and criticism. I. Title. BV639.W7H58 1992 274.2'03'082 - dc2092-26212
This publication is printed on acid-free paper
Printed in Great Britain by Antony Rowe Ltd, Chippenham, Wiltshire
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Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Note on the Presentation of Texts
Introduction
1
1 The Conversionary Dynamic: More Laws for Times Like These
15
2 "Some Special Irregularities of Marriage": Theodore's Penitential and the Case of St thelthryth
46
3 Aldhelm's De Virginitate: Soldiers of Christ and Brides of the Lamb
75
4 Confessors and Spiritual Mentors: Hagiographic Ideals and the Boniface Circle
113
5 The Advice of Women and Eddius's Life of Wilfrid
151
6 A Beautiful Friendship Ruined: Bede's Revisionist Writing of lffled in the Life of Cuthbert
179
7 Queen Converters and the Conversion of the Queen: Bede's Ecclesiastical History and the Royal Marriage
208
8 Rewriting Female Lives: Hild of Whitby and Monastic Women in Bede's Ecclesiastical History
243
9 Rudolph of Fulda's Life of Leoba: An Elegy for the Double Monastery
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