{"product_id":"stealing-obedience-narratives-of-agency-and-identity-in-later-anglo-saxon-england-hardback-9780802097071","title":"Stealing Obedience; Narratives of Agency and Identity in Later Anglo-Saxon England (Hardback) 9780802097071","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eStealing Obedience\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eNarratives of Agency and Identity in Later Anglo-Saxon England\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKatherine O'Brien O'Keeffe (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780802097071\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 28 April 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e296 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.8 x 2.5 cm, 0.62 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Imaginative and sophisticated monograph…  Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe must be warmly congratulated on her fine accomplishment, which will be useful to scholars interested in English monastic life and obedience on either side of the Norman Conquest.’\u003c\/p\u003e - Francesca Tinti (Speculum vol 90:01:2015) ‘Solid cultural and historical grounding, artfully framed by appropriate theoretical models, characterize this study… Highly recommended’ - M.B. Busbee (Choice Magazine; vol 50:04:2012) \u003cp\u003e‘\u003cem\u003eStealing Obedience\u003c\/em\u003e is a fresh look at a body of narrative sources which have only rarely been theorized and troubled so effectively.’\u003c\/p\u003e - Justin Haar (Comitatus vol 44: September 2013) \u003cp\u003e‘A pleasure to read…Speaks to a range of disciplinary interests, and deserves attention as an authoritative contribution to debates about identity and selfhood in Middle Ages.’\u003c\/p\u003e - Catherine A.M. Clarke (Modern Language Review vol 108:04:2013)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eNarratives 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. \u003cem\u003eStealing Obedience\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKatherine O'Brien O'Keeffe looks at Benedictine monasticism through the writings of \u0026amp;AElig;lfric, 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. \u003cem\u003eStealing Obedience \u003c\/em\u003ebrings a highly original approach to the study of Anglo-Saxon narratives of obedience in the adoption of religious identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlate\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Abbreviations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction:  On Stealing Obedience\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1: Dunstan in the Theatre of Choice\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2: ‘Esto quod es’: \u0026amp;AElig;lfric’s Colloquy and the Imperatives of Monastic Identity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3: Edith’s Choice\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4: Leaving Wilton: Gunhild and the Phantoms of Agency\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5: The Silence of Eve\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfterword\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52545920958744,"sku":"9780802097071","price":42.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/stealing-obedience-narratives-of-agency-and-identity-in-later-anglo-saxon-england-hardback-9780802097071","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}