Medievalists.net » Judith http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Judith in Late Anglo-Saxon England http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/20/judith-late-anglo-saxon-england/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/20/judith-late-anglo-saxon-england/#comments Mon, 20 Oct 2014 05:08:25 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=53449 Judith makes two spectacular appearances in the Old English corpus: she is the brave heroine of a poem which is included in one of the most famous manuscripts of the late Anglo-Saxon period, the Nowell Codex, which also contains the heroic epic, Beowulf.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/10/20/judith-late-anglo-saxon-england/feed/ 0 Judith’s Necessary Androgyny: Representations of Gender in the Old English Judith http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/11/judiths-necessary-androgyny-representations-of-gender-in-the-old-english-judith/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/11/judiths-necessary-androgyny-representations-of-gender-in-the-old-english-judith/#comments Tue, 11 Feb 2014 22:06:05 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=47512 The Old English poem Judith explores Anglo-Saxon representations of femininity and masculinity by constructing a double-gendered hero who differs from the biblical version of the same woman.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/11/judiths-necessary-androgyny-representations-of-gender-in-the-old-english-judith/feed/ 0 Creating the Christian Anglo-Saxon and the Other in the Old English Judith and Beowulf http://www.medievalists.net/2013/09/21/creating-the-christian-anglo-saxon-and-the-other-in-the-old-english-judith-and-beowulf/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/09/21/creating-the-christian-anglo-saxon-and-the-other-in-the-old-english-judith-and-beowulf/#comments Sun, 22 Sep 2013 04:03:29 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=43769 This thesis explores the thematic relationship between the Old English poem Judith and the Old English epic Beowulf. I focus on seven narrative similarities between the two texts that are used to distinguish between the heroes, Judith and Beowulf, and their enemies, Holofernes, Grendel, and Grendel's mother.

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