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  1. Stealing obedience
    narratives of agency and identity in later Anglo-Saxon England
    Published: ©2012
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0802097073; 1442661909; 9780802097071; 9781442661905
    Series: Toronto Anglo-Saxon series ; 11
    Subjects: Littérature anglaise / ca 450-1100 (Vieil anglais) / Histoire et critique; Obéissance dans la littérature; Personne (Philosophie) dans la littérature; Identité dans la littérature; HISTORY / Medieval; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English literature; Obedience in literature; Agent (Philosophy) in literature; Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature; Gehorsam; Ordensleben <Motiv>; Religiöse Literatur; Altenglisch
    Other subjects: Wulfstan / of Winchester / active 1000; Wulfstan / of Winchester / époque 1000; Wulfstan / of Winchester / époque 1000 / Life of St. Aethelwold; Wulfstan of Winchester (active 1000): Life of St. Aethelwold
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 300 pages, [1] leaf of plates)
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index

    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

    "Narratives of monastic life in Anglo-Saxon England depict individuals as responsible agents in the assumption and performance of religious identities. To modern eyes, however, many of the 'choices' they make would actually appear to be compulsory. 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

    Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe looks at Benedictine monasticism through the writings of Ælfric, Anselm, Osbern of Canterbury, and Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, as well as liturgy, canon and civil law, chronicle, dialogue, and hagiography, to analyse the practice of obedience in the monastic context. Stealing Obedience brings a highly original approach to the study of Anglo-Saxon narratives of obedience in the adoption of religious identity."--Pub. desc