The Third Gender and Ælfric’s Lives of Saints

By (author) Rhonda L. McDaniel

Book cover: The Third Gender and Ælfric’s Lives of Saints

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(March 2018)

ISBN: 9781580443098

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(March 2018)

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~ENG~ The Third Gender considers Aelfric of Eynsham’s treatment of gender as he translates Latin monastic saints’ Lives for his Anglo-Saxon lay audience.


In The Third Gender, McDaniel addresses the idea of the “third gender” in early hagiography and Latin treatises on virginity and then examines Aelfric’s treatment of gender in his translations of Latin monastic Lives for his non-monastic audiences. She first investigates patristic ideas about a “third gender” by describing this concept within the theoretical frameworks of monasticism and then turns to creating a historical and theological cultural context within which to locate an interpretation of Aelfric’s portrayals of male and female saints.

Introduction The Latin Doctors and the Concept of Metagender Metagender, Gender, and Aelfric's Lives of Saints Metagender Brides and Soldiers of Christ Material & Spiritual Bodies Material & Spiritual Rulership Chaste Marriage Conclusion: Metagender, Gender, and Aelfric Bibliography,

Introduction: Gender, Memory, and Seeing Things Their Way
The Latin Doctors and the Concept of Metagender
Metagender, Gender, and Ælfric’s Lives of Saints
Metagender in Genders
Brides and Soldiers of Christ
Material and Spiritual Bodies
Material and Spiritual Rulership
Chaste Marriage
Conclusion: Metagender, Gender, and Ælfric
Bibliography
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