| Description |
xiii, 313 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The fates of women / Marijane Osborn -- Introduction / Helen Damico and Alexandra Hennessey Olsen -- Some implications of the Boniface correspondence / Christine E. Fell -- AEthelflaed, Lady of the Mercians / F.T. Wainwright -- The king's wife in Wessex, 800-1066 / Pauline Stafford -- The historical bearing of place-name studies : the place of women in Anglo-Saxon society / Frank M. Stenton -- Concepts of Anglo-Saxon women in the laws / Mary P. Richards and B. Jane Stanfield -- The politics of scarcity : notes on the sex ratio in early Scandinavia / Carol J. Clover -- What's so new about the sexual revolution? : some comments on Anglo-Saxon attitudes toward sexuality in women based on four Exeter Book riddles / Edith Whitehurst Williams. |
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AElfric's women saints : Eugenia / Paul E. Szarmach -- The Ides of the cotton gnomic poem / Audrey L. Meaney -- The valkyrie reflex in Old English literature / Helen Damico -- Women's songs, women's language : Wulf and eadwacer and The wife's lament / Patricia A. Belanoff -- Freothuwebbe in Old English poetry / L. John Sklute -- The Old English poetic vocabulary of beauty / Paul Beekman Taylor -- Cynewulf's autonomous women : a reconsideration of Elene and Juliana / Alexandra Hennessey Olsen. |
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"Paet waes geomuru ides?" : a female stereotype examined / Joyce Hill -- The structural unity of Beowulf : the problem of Grendel's mother / Jane Chance -- Eve's I.Q. rating : two sexist views of Genesis B / Alain Renoir -- Wulf and eadwacer : the adulterous woman reconsidered / Dolores Warwick Frese -- The Englishing of Arcestrate : woman in Apollonius of Tyre / Anita R. Riedinger. |
| Subject |
English literature -- Old English, approximately 450-1100 -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500.
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Women -- England -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500.
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Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature.
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Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
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Sex role in literature.
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Women in literature.
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| Added Author |
Damico, Helen.
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Olsen, Alexandra Hennessey.
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| ISBN |
0253334136 |
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0253205476 (pbk.) |
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