Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Abbreviations and Short Titles ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Old English Martyrology
6. 1. Female Hagiography in the Old English Martyrology 13
7. 2. Bodies of Land: The Place of Gender in the Old English Martyrology 30
8. Form and Genre
9. 3. Why Is Margaret’s the Only Life in London, BL, Cotton MS Tiberius A.iii? 55
10. 4 Æthelgifu’s Will as Hagiography 82
11. 5. Assuming Virginity: Tradition and the Naked Narrative in Ælfric’s Homily on the Assumption of the Virgin 103
12. 6. Genre Trouble: Reading the Old English Vita of Saint Euphrosyne 121
13. 7. More Genre Trouble: The Life of Mary of Egypt 140
14. Mothers
15. 8. “Nutrix pia”: The Flowering of the Cult of St Æthelthryth in Anglo-Saxon England 167
16. 9. The Kentish Queen as Omnium Mater: Goscelin of Saint-Bertin’s Lections and the Emergence of the Cult of Saint Seaxburh 191
17. Virgin Martyrs
18. 10. Agnes among the Anglo-Saxons: Patristic Inluences in Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Saxon Versions of the Passio of St Agnes, Virgin and Martyr 217
19. 11. Heavenly Bodies: Paradoxes of Female Martyrdom in Ælfric’s Lives of Saints 249
20. 12. “Torture me, rend me, burn me, kill me!” Goscelin of Saint-Bertin and the Depiction of Female Sanctity 274
21. Bibliography 307
22. Contributors 341
23. Index 345