TABLE OF CONTENTS


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Acknowledgments



List of Figures



List of Files



Introduction



Part One: Textual History of the Old English Mary of Egypt



Part Two: Current Scholarship of the Old English Mary of Egypt


     Source Studies


     Comparisons to Ælfric


     Anglo-Saxon Female Sexuality


     Narrative Structure


     Summary



Part Three: New Textual Evidence for Mary of Egypt in BL MS Cotton Otho B. x


     Variant Group 1: Orthographic Variants


          Vowels


          Consonants


          Interchange of -i with -ig


          Metathesis


     Variant Group 2: Variants of Vocabulary


          Variant Forms of Words


          Different Words with Synonymous Meanings


          Different Words with Different Meanings


          Variant Phrases


     Variant Group 3: Syntactic Variants


          Nouns


          Verbs


          Other Parts of Speech


     Questionable Readings


     Summary



Conclusion



Notes



Works Cited



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