Table of Contents
Introduction - Paul E. Szarmach
Old English Martyrology
Female Hagiography in the Old English Martyrology - Christine Rauer (University of St. Andrews)
Bodies and Land: The Place of Gender in the Old English Martyrology - Jacqueline Stodnick (University of Texas)
Form and Genre
Why is Margaret’s the Only Life in London, BL, Cotton Tiberius A.iii? - Tracey Anne Cooper (St. John’s University)
Æthelgifu’s Will as Hagiography - Mary Louise Fellows (University of Minnesota Law School)
Assuming Virginity: Tradition and the Naked Narrative in Ælfric’s Homily on the Assumption of the Virgin - Rebecca Stephenson (University of Louisiana at Monroe)
Genre Trouble: Reading the Old English Vita of Saint Euphrosyne - Robin Norris (Carleton University)
More Genre Trouble: The Life of Mary of Egypt - Paul E. Szarmach (Western Michigan University)
Mothers
‘Nutrix Pia’: The Flowering of the Cult of Æthelthryth in Anglo-Saxon England - John Black (Moravian College)
The Kentish Queen as Omnium Mater: Goscelin of Saint-Bertin’s Lections and the Emergence of the Cult of Saint Seaxburh - Virginia Blanton (University of Missouri, Kansas City)
Virgin Martyrs
Agnes Among the Angles: Patristic Influences in Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Saxon Versions of the Passio of Saint Agnes - Rhonda McDaniel (Middle Tennessee State University)
Heavenly Bodies: Paradoxes of Martyrdom in Ælfric’s Lives of Saints - Renée Trilling (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
‘Torture Me, Rend Me, Burn Me, Kill Me!’ Goscelin of Saint-Bertin and the Depiction of Female Sanctity - Rosalind Love (University of Cambridge)