Pamela Loos-Noji 'Temptation and Redemption: A Monastic Life in Stone',
Equally in God's Image: Women in the Middle Ages, ed. Julia Bolton Holloway,
Joan Bechtold, Constance S. Wright (New York: Peter Lang, 1990), pp.
220-232, 333-334. On St Eugenia, cross-dressing. Not Old English but given
the Paul/Anthony bread-breaking, part of the cluster that is, for instance
on the Ruthwell Cross.
At 14.26 12/06/97 -0500, you wrote:
>
>Actually, any references pertaining to cross-dressing saints in Old
>English hagiography would be helpful. I know of Szarmach's article on
>Aelfric's Eugenia, as well as one by Gopa Roy on the same text. But I've
>been unable to find others.
>
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Gregory on Benedict: 'quia animae videnti Creatorem angusta est omnis creatura'.
Julian of Norwich: 'For a soul that seth the Maker of al thyng, all that is
made semyth fulle lytylle'.
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