{"product_id":"stealing-obedience-9781487520625","title":"Stealing Obedience","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStealing 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 agency (in the modern sense) might be sought in these narratives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Imaginative and sophisticated monograph... Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe must be warmly congratulated on her fine accomplishment, which will be useful to scholars interested in English monastic life and obedience on either side of the Norman Conquest.' -- Francesca Tinti Speculum vol 90:01:2015 'Solid cultural and historical grounding, artfully framed by appropriate theoretical models, characterize this study... Highly recommended' -- M.B. Busbee Choice Magazine; vol 50:04:2012 'Stealing Obedience is a fresh look at a body of narrative sources which have only rarely been theorized and troubled so effectively.' -- Justin Haar Comitatus vol 44: September 2013 'A pleasure to read...Speaks to a range of disciplinary interests, and deserves attention as an authoritative contribution to debates about identity and selfhood in Middle Ages.' -- Catherine A.M. Clarke Modern Language Review vol 108:04:2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlate  Acknowledgments  List of Abbreviations  Introduction:  On Stealing Obedience  1: Dunstan in the Theatre of Choice  2: 'Esto quod es': Aelfric's Colloquy and the Imperatives of Monastic Identity  3: Edith's Choice  4: Leaving Wilton: Gunhild and the Phantoms of Agency  5: The Silence of Eve  Afterword  Bibliography  Index","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187721757015,"sku":"9781487520625","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/stealing-obedience-9781487520625","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}