Virginity and the married-virgin saints in Ælfric’s Lives of Saints: the translation of an ideal

Virginity and the married-virgin saints in Ælfric’s Lives of Saints: the translation of an ideal Smith, Liesl Ruth Thesis: Doctor of Philosophy,Graduate Department of Medieval Studies,University of Toronto (2000) Abstract Among the narratives included in his Lives of Saints, Ælfric of Eynsham translates three passiones of married-virgin saints: Passio Sancti Iuliani et Sponse Eius Basilisse, […]

Gender, Corporeality and Christianity in the Old English Judith, Juliana and Elene

Beowulf fights Grendel's mother

Gender, Corporeality and Christianity in the Old English Judith, Juliana and Elene Chenard , Marianne Alicia Malo (University of Alberta) M.A Thesis (English), University of Alberta (1998) Abstract Gender in tenth-century Old Engiish religious poetry is intimately linked to representations of the body, as well as to medieval exegesis concerning the relationship between the spirit […]

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