یادداشتهای مربوط به کتابنامه ، واژه نامه و نمایه های داخل اثر
متن يادداشت
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-202) and index.
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
"Exploring Old English texts ranging from Beowulf to Aelfric's Lives of Saints, this book examines ways that women's monastic, material, and devotional practices in Anglo-Saxon England shaped literary representations of women and femininity. Horner argues that these representations derive from a "discourse" of female monastic enclosure, based on the increasingly strict rules of cloistered confinement that regulated the female religious body in the early Middle Ages. She shows that the female subjects of much Old English literature are enclosed by many layers - literal and figurative, textual, material, discursive, and spatial - all of which image and reinforce the powerful institutions imposed by the Church on the female body. Though it has long been recognized that medieval religious women were enclosed, and that virginity was highly valued, this book is the first to consider the interrelationships of these two positions - that is, how the material practices of female monasticism inform the textual operations of Old English literature."--Jacket.
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عنوان
Discourse of enclosure.
شماره استاندارد بين المللي کتاب و موسيقي
0791450090
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
Enclosure (Monasticism)-- History-- To 1500.
موضوع مستند نشده
English literature-- Old English, ca. 450-1100-- History and criticism.
موضوع مستند نشده
Feminism and literature-- England-- History-- To 1500.
موضوع مستند نشده
Women and literature-- England-- History-- To 1500.