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1. Record Number: 11754
Author(s): Blanton, Virginia.
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Title : Ely's St. Æthelthryth: The Shrine's Enclosure of the Female Body as Symbol for the Inviolability of Monastic Space [The author argues that the monks at Ely used hagiographies and historical accounts to present the saint and her monastery in as strong a position as possible. The monks identify with the holy female body, emphasizing that as Æthelthryth's body is intact so the lands and properties of the monastery must not be violently seized. After the Norman conquest, William sent Norman monks to Ely. They, however, also wanted to defend the house's privileges, and the writings took on a new image for the saint. She is a warrior woman (a virago or virile woman) who confronts those wrongly holding the monastery's properties. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Women's Space: Patronage, Place, and Gender in the Medieval Church.   Edited by Virginia Chieffo Raguin and Sarah Stanbury .   State University of New York Press, 2005.  Pages 47 - 73.
Year of Publication: 2005.
2. Record Number: 14754
Author(s): Blanton, Virginia.
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Title : King Anna's Daughters: Genealogical Narrative and Cult Formation in the "Liber Eliensis" [The "Liber Eliensis" written by twelfth century monks at Ely, created Wihtburg as another sister for Aethelthryth to underline her sanctity and importance by emphasizing virginity, royalty and holy kinship. These stories went beyond the monastery to local communities in East Anglia and appear in saints' lives and parish records as late as the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Historical Reflections/ Reflexions historiques , 30., 1 (Spring 2004):  Pages 127 - 149.
Year of Publication: 2004.
3. Record Number: 8851
Author(s): Blanton-Whetsell, Virginia.
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Title : Imagines Aetheldredae: Mapping Hagiographic Representations of Abbatial Power and Religious Patronage [The author studies the veneration of Saint Æthelthryth (or Etheldreda) in England across the Middle Ages and across both lay and religious audiences. She argues that scholars frequently divide the evidence of a saint's cult along academic disciplinary lines. They thereby miss evidence that is crucial for their understanding of a saint and those who honored her. Appendix A is an extensive inventory of representations, texts, and buildings concerning or devoted to Saint Ethelreda. Known origins are also indicated. Appendix B is a chart that tabulates the data in Appendix A. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Studies in Iconography , 23., ( 2002):  Pages 55 - 107.
Year of Publication: 2002.
4. Record Number: 10457
Author(s): Blanton-Whetsell, Virginia.
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Title : Tota integra, tota incorrupta: The Shrine of St. Aethelthryth as Symbol of Monastic Autonomy [The author examines the "Liber Eliensis," a Latin compilation of charters, deeds, and other documents chronicling the history of Saint Etheldreda, her shrine, and the male monastery on the island of Ely. Norman monks were introduced to Ely by William the Conqueror, but they identified with their protective saint against both royal and episcopal interests. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Full Text via Project Muse) 32, 2 (Spring 2002): 227-267. Link Info
Year of Publication: 2002.
5. Record Number: 7293
Author(s): McCash, June Hall.
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Title : La vie seinte Audree: A Fourth Text by Marie de France? [The author suggests that the saint's life was written by Marie de France. She argues that vocabulary, style, and literary technique are all very similar to Marie de France's texts. She also argues that the theme of spiritual marriage in the saint's life would be congenial to the author of "Eliduc." Moreover, the author names herself Marie and asks to be remembered as does Marie de France. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Speculum , 77., 3 (July 2002):  Pages 744 - 777.
Year of Publication: 2002.
6. Record Number: 2907
Author(s): Otter, Monika.
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Title : The Temptation of St. AEthelthryth
Source: Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 9., 1 (Spring 1997):  Pages 139 - 163.
Year of Publication: 1997.
7. Record Number: 4830
Author(s): Rosser, Susan.
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Title : Aethelthryth: A Conventional Saint? [the author argues that French hagiography had a strong influence on Anglo-Saxon expectations of holy women; she points out that there were a number of reasons that contributed to Aethlthryth's sainthood including her royal status, gifts to the Church, virginity, asceticism, support of her cult by her powerful family, ease with which her life fit earlier models, and the importance of native-born saints for the English Church].
Source: Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester , 79., 3 (Autumn 1997):  Pages 15 - 24.
Year of Publication: 1997.
8. Record Number: 2331
Author(s): Waterhouse, Ruth.
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Title : Discourse and Hypersignification in Two of Aelfric's Saint's Lives [Aethelthryth (or Etheldreda) and Oswald; the author discusses differences in interpretation of the narrative among contemporaries of the saints, readers of Bede's version in the eighth century, Aelfric's version in the late tenth century, and a reading in the late twentieth century].
Source: Holy Men and Holy Women: Old English Prose Saints' Live and Their Contexts.   Edited by Paul E. Szarmach .   State University of New York Press, 1996. Old English Newsletter , 29., 3 (Spring 1996):  Pages 333 - 352.
Year of Publication: 1996.
9. Record Number: 2353
Author(s): Blanton-Whetsell, Virginia.
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Title : St. Aethelthryth's Cult: The Anglo-Saxon Liturgical Evidence [argues that the saint was appropriated by Benedictine monastics as a model of male chastity].
Source: Old English Newsletter , 29., 3 (Spring 1996):
Year of Publication: 1996.
10. Record Number: 483
Author(s): Szarmach, Paul E.
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Title : Aelfric and the Problem of Women [Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association of America, San Diego, December 27-30, 1994, Session 686]
Source: Old English Newsletter , 28., 3 (Spring 1995):
Year of Publication: 1995.
11. Record Number: 442
Author(s): Wogan- Browne, Jocelyn.
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Title : Rerouting the Dower: The Anglo- Norman Life of St. Audrey by Marie (of Chatteris?) [St. Audrey (Latin: Etheldreda) was a 7th century queen of Northumbria, a twice married virgin, and a monastic foundress].
Source: Power of the Weak: Studies on Medieval Women. A selection of a papers presented at the annual conference of the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, Feb. 1990.   Edited by Jennifer Carpenter and Sally- Beth MacLean .   University of Illinois Press, 1995. Old English Newsletter , 29., 3 (Spring 1996):  Pages 27 - 56.
Year of Publication: 1995.
12. Record Number: 1957
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Title : The Legend of St. Etheldreda in British Library, MS Egerton 1933, and Bodleian Library, MS Eng. Poet. a. 1 (Vernon)
Source: Manuscripta , 38., 3 (November 1994):  Pages 199
Year of Publication: 1994.
13. Record Number: 11743
Author(s): Fell, Christine E.
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Title : Saint Æðelþryð: A Historical-Hagiographical Dichotomy Revisited [The author examines Bede's account of St. Aethelthryth in his "Ecclesiastical History." He celebrates her as the closest English equivalent to a virgin martyr. Later accounts built a whole line of royal abbesses after Aethelthryth (beginning with her sister Seaxburh), but contemporary evidence suggests that Ely was only a personal monument to her particular asceticism. It was not a center of learning and probably faded soon after her sister's death only to be refounded as a male monastery which enhanced and capitalized on Aethelthryth's reputation for sanctity. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Nottingham Medieval Studies , 38., ( 1994):  Pages 18 - 34.
Year of Publication: 1994.