Bibliograph

Double Agents, Women and Clerical Culture in Anglo-Saxon England, Claire Lees and Gillian Overing

Type

Label

Double Agents, Women and Clerical Culture in Anglo-Saxon England, Claire Lees and Gillian Overing

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Double Agents

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Claire Lees and Gillian Overing

Series statement

The Middle Ages series

Sub title

Women and Clerical Culture in Anglo-Saxon England

Summary

First published in 2001, Double Agents was the first book-length study of women in Anglo-Saxon written culture that took on the insights provided by contemporary critical and feminist theory, and it quickly established itself as a standard. Now available again, it complicates the exclusion of women from the historical record of Anglo-Saxon England by tackling the deeper questions behind how the feminine is modeled, used, and made metaphoric in Anglo-Saxon texts, even when the women themselves are absent

Target audience

adult

Classification