Honors Program Theses
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Open Access Honors Program Thesis
First Advisor
Wendy Marie Hoofnagle
Keywords
Anglo-Saxons; Anglo-Saxons in literature; Women; Women in literature; Wife's lament;
Abstract
Looking through the lens of Anglo-Saxon womens' roles as peaceweavers, cupbearers, inciters or "whetting women" in their ability to practice and assert power, resistance and agency within conjugal bonds with husbands or lovers, we can better understand the ambiguous Old English poem The Wife's Lament. By exploring the poem, documents that history has left us, and previous foundational research, I will investigate whether the role women played in Anglo Saxon society mattered, and if either way, they had significant opportunity for agency.
Year of Submission
2012
Department
Department of Languages and Literatures
University Honors Designation
A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the designation University Honors
Date Original
4-2012
Object Description
1 PDF file (43 pages)
Copyright
©2012 Alison Leytem
Recommended Citation
Leytem, Alison, "Spinning Wheels, Weaving Words, and Cupbearing: The Wife's Lament and Female Power, Agency and Resistance in Anglo-Saxon England" (2012). Honors Program Theses. 751.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/hpt/751
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