Can PASE help with the name Breguswith in suggesting an origin? The dream vision as you say is a literary trope. I wonder if other early English female saints are similarly treated.
Nothing on PASE that I could find! I recall Christine Fell has written about Breguswith possibly being pregnant during the dream sequence and the topos of the saint-prediction dream, though I haven't been able to access her work in the last few weeks due to Covid!
I only have Fell's Anglo-Saxon Women and the Impact of 1066 and there was nothing in there. Happy to try and help in any other way. I also remember reading something about pregnancy prophecies and if I come across anything I will revert.
Can PASE help with the name Breguswith in suggesting an origin? The dream vision as you say is a literary trope. I wonder if other early English female saints are similarly treated.
Nothing on PASE that I could find! I recall Christine Fell has written about Breguswith possibly being pregnant during the dream sequence and the topos of the saint-prediction dream, though I haven't been able to access her work in the last few weeks due to Covid!
I only have Fell's Anglo-Saxon Women and the Impact of 1066 and there was nothing in there. Happy to try and help in any other way. I also remember reading something about pregnancy prophecies and if I come across anything I will revert.
Excellent article and reading
thank you
Stephen.