Double Agents: Women and Clerical Culture in Anglo-Saxon England (The Middle Ages)

by Clare A. Lees and Gillian R. Overing

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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.
  • ISBN13 9781783163618
  • Publish Date 1 February 2009 (first published 10 October 2001)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint University of Wales Press
  • Format eBook (EPUB)
  • Language English