Stealing Obedience: Narratives of Agency and Identity in Later Anglo-Saxon England

by Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe

Narratives 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. Stealing Obedience 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 148752062X
• ISBN13: 9781487520625
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher