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<p>Narratives 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. Stealing 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 sou

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Author

Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe

Publisher

University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781487520625

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Criticism, History, Literary Fiction

Updated

2026-03-25