Stealing Obedience

Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe is a professor in the Department of English and the director of the Medieval Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley.

• PlateAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction:  On Stealing Obedience1: Dunstan in the Theatre of Choice2: ‘Esto quod es’: Ælfric’s Colloquy and the Imperatives of Monastic Identity3: Edith’s Choice4: Leaving Wilton: Gunhild and the Phantoms of Agency5: The Silence of EveAfterwordBibliographyIndex

‘Imaginative and sophisticated monograph…  Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe must be warmly congratulated on her fine accomplishment, which will be useful to scholars interested in English monastic life and obedience on either side of the Norman Conquest.’- Francesca Tinti (Speculum vol 90:01:2015) ‘Solid cultural and historical grounding, artfully framed by appropriate theoretical models, characterize this study… Highly recommended’ - M.B. Busbee (Choice Magazine; vol 50:04:2012) ‘Stealing Obedience is a fresh look at a body of narrative sources which have only rarely been theorized and troubled so effectively.’- Justin Haar (Comitatus vol 44: September 2013) ‘A pleasure to read…Speaks to a range of disciplinary interests, and deserves attention as an authoritative contribution to debates about identity and selfhood in Middle Ages.’- Catherine A.M. Clarke (Modern Language Review vol 108:04:2013)