Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 12275
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Aström , Berit.
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  • Title: The Creation of the Anglo-Saxon Woman [brief study of three cases in which scholars have minimized or misinterpreted the role of Anglo-Saxon women: Grendel's mother, the "Wife's Lament," and the excavation of two women in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery, one of whom may have been raped].
  • Source: Studia Neophilologica 70, 1 ( 1998): Pages 25 - 34.
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  • Article Type: Journal Article
  • Subject (See Also): Burials Grendel's Mother (Literary Figure) Literature- Verse Rape Wife's Lament, Old English Elegy Women's History
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  • Geographic Area: British Isles
  • Century: 8-9
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  • Year of Publication: 1998.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 00393274