Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Tracey-Anne Cooper
• Henrike Lähnemann
• Kevin R. Brine
• Elena Ciletti
• Lähnemann, Henrike
• Brine, Kevin R
• Ciletti, Elena

Titel

Judith in Late Anglo-Saxon England

Ist Teil von

• The Sword of Judith, 2010, p.169

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: Open Book Publishers

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Judith makes two spectacular appearances in the Old English corpus: she is the brave heroine of a poem which is included in one of the most famous manuscripts of the late Anglo-Saxon period, the Nowell Codex, which also contains the heroic epic,Beowulf.¹ Judith is the subject also of a homily by Ælfric, the most prolific and highly-regarded homilist of the age, who rendered her as an appropriate subject for the contemplation ofclænnysse(chastity) for the benefit of nuns.² Thus, even at our first approach to the perception of Judith in late Anglo-Saxon England, we are presented with ambivalence;