4 Be a Man, Beowulf

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. List of Illustrations 7
4. Introduction 9
5. Metacritical Considerations
6. 1 The Lost Victorian Women of Old English Studies 25
7. 2 Embroidered Narratives 53
8. 3 Remembering the Lady of Mercia 83
9. Affect Theory
10. 4 Be a Man, Beowulf 115
11. 5 Shame, Disgust and Ælfric’s Masculine Performance 143
12. Treatments of Virginity
13. 6 The Ornament of Virginity 169
14. 7 Chaste Bodies and Untimely Virgins 197
15. Medical Discourse
16. 8 Monaðgecynd and flewsan 223
17. 9 Dangerous Voices, Erased Bodies 253
18. 10 Women and “Women’s Medicine” in Early Medieval England, from Text to Practice 279
19. Women’s Literacy
20. 11 The Literate Memory of Hugeburc of Heidenheim 315
21. 12 A Road Nearly Taken 343
22. 13 “Historical Accuracy,” Anonymity, and Women’s Authorship 377
23. Index 401