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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Stealing obedience
    sub title: narratives of agency and identity in later Anglo-Saxon England
  title info:
    title: Narratives of agency and identity in later Anglo-Saxon England
  name:
    name part: O'Brien O'Keeffe, Katherine
    name part: 1948-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: ebrary, Inc
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: onc
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: ang
  language:
    language term: lat
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 300 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : color illustrations
  abstract: "Narratives of monastic life in Anglo-Saxon England depict individuals as responsible agents in the assumption and performance of religious identities. To modern eyes, however, many of the 'choices' they make would actually appear to be compulsory. Stealing Obedience explores how a Christian notion of agent action - where freedom incurs responsibility - was a component of identity in the last hundred years of Anglo-Saxon England, and investigates where agency (in the modern sense) might be sought in these narratives.
  abstract: Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe looks at Benedictine monasticism through the writings of Ælfric, Anselm, Osbern of Canterbury, and Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, as well as liturgy, canon and civil law, chronicle, dialogue, and hagiography, to analyse the practice of obedience in the monastic context. Stealing Obedience brings a highly original approach to the study of Anglo-Saxon narratives of obedience in the adoption of religious identity."--Pub. desc.
  table of contents: 1: Dunstan in the Theatre of Choice -- 2: 'Esto quod es': Ælfric's Colloquy and the Imperatives of Monastic Identity -- 3: Edith's Choice -- 4: Leaving Wilton: Gunhild and the Phantoms of Agency -- 5: The Silence of Eve.
  note: Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  note: Includes some text in Latin and Old English.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk-en
  subject:
    name:
      name part: of Winchester
      name part: Wulfstan
      name part: active 1000
  subject:
    topic: English literature
    temporal: Old English, ca. 450-1100
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Obedience in literature
  subject:
    topic: Agent (Philosophy) in literature
  subject:
    topic: Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature
  subject:
    name:
      name part: of Winchester
      name part: Wulfstan
      name part: époque 1000
  subject:
    topic: Littérature anglaise
    temporal: ca 450-1100 (Vieil anglais)
    topic: Histoire et critique
  classification: PR173 .O34 2012eb
  classification: 829/.09
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Toronto Anglo-Saxon series ; 11
  identifier: 1442661909 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9781442661905 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9780802097071
  identifier: 0802097073
  identifier: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action
  record info:
    record content source: YDXCP
    record creation date: 120709
    record change date: 20250816204732.7
    record identifier: in00002774111
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng