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The Displacement of the Body in AElfric's Virgin Martyr Lives
addresses 10th-century Old English hagiographical translations,
from Latin source material, by the abbot and grammarian AElfric.
The vitae of Agnes, Agatha, Lucy, and Eugenia, and the married
saints Daria, Basilissa, and Cecilia, included in AElfric's s Old
English Lives of Saints, recount the lives, persecution, and
martyrdom of young women who renounce sex and, in the first four
stories, marriage, to devote their lives to Christian service. They
purport to be about the primacy of virginity and the role of the
body in attaining sanctity. However, a comparison of the Latin
sources with AElfric's versions suggests that his translation
style, characterized by simplifying the most important meanings of
the text, omits certain words or entire episodes that foreground
suppressed female sexuality as key to sainthood. The Old English
Lives de-emphasize the physical nature of faith and highlight the
importance of spiritual purity. In this volume, Alison Gulley
explores how the context of the Benedictine Reform in late
Anglo-Saxon England and AElfric's commitment to writing for a lay
audience resulted in a set of stories depicting a spirituality
distinct from physical intactness.
Essays on the modern reception of the Middle Ages, built round the
central theme of the ethics of medievalism. Ethics in post-medieval
responses to the Middle Ages form the main focus of this volume.
The six opening essays tackle such issues as the legitimacy of
reinventing medieval customs and ideas, at what point the
production and enjoyment of caricaturizing the Middle Ages become
inappropriate, how medievalists treat disadvantaged communities,
and the tension between political action and ethics in medievalism.
The eight subsequent articles then build on this foundation as they
concentrate on capitalist motives for melding superficially
incompatible narratives in medievalist video games, Dan Brown's use
of Dante's Inferno to promote a positivist, transhumanist agenda,
disjuncturesfrom medieval literature to medievalist film in
portrayals of human sacrifice, the influence of Beowulf on horror
films and vice versa, portrayals of war in Beowulf films, socialism
in William Morris's translation of Beowulf, bias in Charles Alfred
Stothard's Monumental Effigies of Great Britain, and a medieval
source for death in the Harry Potter novels. The volume as a whole
invites and informs a much larger discussion on such vital issues
as the ethical choices medievalists make, the implications of those
choices for their makers, and the impact of those choices on the
world around us. Karl Fugelso is Professor of Art History at Towson
University in Baltimore, Maryland. Contributors: Mary R. Bowman,
Harry Brown, Louise D'Arcens, Alison Gulley, Nickolas Haydock, Lisa
Hicks, Lesley E. Jacobs, Michael R. Kightley, Phillip Lindley,
Pascal J. Massie, Lauryn S. Mayer, Brent Moberley, Kevin Moberley,
Daniel-Raymond Nadon, Jason Pitruzello, Nancy M. Resh, Carol L.
Robinson, Christopher Roman, M.J. Toswell.
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