Old English Life of St Mary of Egypt: An Edition of the Old English Text with Modern English Parallel-Text Translation

by Hugh Magennis

Mary of Egypt, a penitent prostitute and figure of female autonomy and authority, is a disconcerting and unconventional saint, especially in an Anglo-Saxon context. She is not the kind of model of idealized female virtue normally favoured by leading churchmen in Anglo-Saxon England, and yet
her life occurs in the manuscript of lfric's Lives of Saints, probably the most influential vernacular collection of saints' lives of its period. The story...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0859896722
• ISBN13: 9780859896726
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 7.9"