12. Reading Grendel’s Mother

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. List of Abbreviations viii
5. Note from the Editors viii
6. Introduction: Feminism and Early English Studies Now 1
7. PART ONE: LITERACY AND MATERIAL CULTURE
8. 1. Anglo-Saxon Women, Woman, and Womanhood 23
9. 2. Beyond Valkyries: Drinking Horns in Anglo- Saxon Women’s Graves 43
10. 3. Embodied Literacy: Paraliturgical Performance in the Life of Saint Leoba 61
11. 4. Imagining the Lost Libraries of Anglo- Saxon Double Monasteries 75
12. PART TWO: ENGENDERING MARRIAGE AND FAMILY
13. 5. A Textbook Stance on Marriage: The Versus ad coniugem in Anglo-Saxon England 97
14. 6. The Circumcision and Weaning of Isaac: The Cuts that Bind 113
15. 7. Saintly Mothers and Mothers of Saints 131
16. 8. Playing with Memories: Emma of Normandy, Cnut, and the Spectacle of Ælfheah’s Corpus 141
17. PART THREE: WOMEN OF THE BEOWULF MANUSCRIPT
18. 9. The Missing Women of the Beowulf Manuscript 161
19. 10. Boundaries Embodied: An Ecofeminist Reading of the Old English Judith 179
20. 11. Listen to the Woman: Reading Wealhtheow as Stateswoman 191
21. 12. Reading Grendel’s Mother 209
22. PART FOUR: WOMEN AND ANGLO- SAXON STUDIES
23. 13. Female Agency in Early Anglo- Saxon Studies: The “Nuns of Tavistock” and Elizabeth Elstob 229
24. 14. The First Female Anglo- Saxon Professors 261
25. Select Bibliography 277
26. Index of Manuscripts 283
27. General Index 285