ABOUT THIS BOOK
<I>New Readings on Women and Early Medieval English Literature and Culture</I> showcases current and original scholarship relating to women in Early Medieval English culture and in Early Medieval English studies and promises to stimulate new work in those areas. Recognizing the plasticity of gender structures, roles, and relations in Early Medieval English literature and culture as well as within the modern discipline of Early Medieval English Studies, the essays reveal pluralities of gender bequeathed to us and encourage us to rethink power/gender dynamics in our present moment.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

<div>Introduction</div><div>Feminism and Anglo-Saxon Studies, Now - Stacy S. Klein</div><div>Part I: Literacy and Material Culture</div><div>Anglo-Saxon Women, Woman, and Womanhood - Gale R. Owen-Crocker</div><div>Beyond Valkyries: Drinking Horns in Anglo-Saxon Women’s Graves - Carol Neuman de Vegvar</div><div>Embodied Literacy: Paraliturgical Performance in the <i>Life of Saint Leoba</i> - Lisa M. C. Weston</div><div>Imagining the Lost Libraries of the Anglo-Saxon Double Monasteries - Virginia Blanton</div><div>Part II: Engendering Marriage and Family</div><div>A Textbook Stance on Marriage: The <i>Versus ad coniugem</i> in Anglo-Saxon England - Janet Schrunk Ericksen</div><div>The Circumcision and Weaning of Isaac: The Cuts that Bind - Catherine E. Karkov</div><div>Saintly Mothers and Mothers of Saints - Joyce Hill</div><div>Playing with Memories: Emma of Normandy, Cnut, and the Spectacle of Ælfheah’s Corpus - Colleen Dunn</div><div>Part III: Women of the Beowulf Manuscript</div><div>The Missing Women of the <i>Beowulf</i>-Manuscript - Teresa Hooper</div><div>Boundaries Embodied: An Ecofeminist Reading of the Old English <i>Judith</i> - Heide Estes</div><div>Listen to the Woman: Reading <i>Wealhþeow</i> as Stateswoman - Helen Conrad O'Briain</div><div>Reading Grendel's Mother - Jane Chance</div><div>Part IV: Women and Anglo-Saxon Studies</div><div>Female Agency in Early Anglo-Saxon Studies: The “Nuns of Tavistock” and Elizabeth Elstob - Timothy Graham</div><div>The First Female Anglo-Saxon Professors - Mary Dockray-Miller</div>