{"product_id":"stealing-obedience-katherine-obrien-okeeffe-9780802097071","title":"Stealing Obedience: Narratives of Agency and Identity in Later Anglo-Saxon England","description":"\u003cp\u003eNarratives of monastic life in Anglo-Saxon England depict individuals as responsible agents in the assumption and performance of religious identities. To modern eyes, however, many of the 'choices' they make would actually appear to be compulsory. \u003cem\u003eStealing Obedience\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKatherine O'Brien O'Keeffe looks at Benedictine monasticism through the writings of  lfric, Anselm, Osbern of Canterbury, and Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, as well as liturgy, canon and civil law, chronicle, dialogue, and hagiography, to analyse the practice of obedience in the monastic context. \u003cem\u003eStealing Obedience \u003c\/em\u003ebrings a highly original approach to the study of Anglo-Saxon narratives of obedience in the adoption of religious identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0802097073\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802097071\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/28\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2012","brand":"Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49096735162623,"sku":"9780802097071","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/stealing-obedience-katherine-obrien-okeeffe-9780802097071","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}