Double Agents
Women and Clerical Culture in Anglo-Saxon England
By (author) Claire A Lees, Gillian R. Overing
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Publication date:
01 February 2009Publisher
University of Wales PressISBN-13: 9781783163625
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.