Double Agents: Women and Clerical Culture in Anglo-Saxon England

By Gillian R. Overing and Clare A. Lees

First published in 2001, Double Agents was the first book-length study of women in Anglo-Saxon written culture that took on the insights provided by contemporary critical and feminist theory, and it quickly established itself as a standard. Now available again, it complicates the exclusion of women from the historical record of Anglo-Saxon England by tackling the deeper questions behind how the feminine is modeled, used, and made metaphoric in Anglo-Saxon texts, even when the women themselves are absent.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0708321836
• ISBN13: 9780708321836
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"