The Scribes For Womens Convents In Late Medieval Germany

Author : Cynthia J. Cyrus
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802093698
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scribes for Women's Convents in Late Medieval Germany written by Cynthia J. Cyrus and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cyrus demonstrates the prevalence of manuscript production by women monastics and challenges current assumptions of how manuscripts circulated in the late medieval period.

Author : C. Cyrus
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230393586
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Received Medievalisms written by C. Cyrus and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the post-medieval reception of Vienna's women's monastic institutions. Through analysis of the physical and historical place such women's institutions held in an important urban and political center, this book provides a new picture of the ways in which the medieval shapes later understandings of women's role and agency.

Author : Alison I. Beach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521792431
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women as Scribes written by Alison I. Beach and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-29 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Beach's book on female scribes in twelfth-century Bavaria - a full-length study of the role of women copyists in the Middle Ages - is underpinned by the notion that the scriptorium was central to the intellectual revival of the Middle Ages and that women played a role in this renaissance. The author examines the exceptional quantity of evidence of female scribal activity in three different religious communities, pointing out the various ways in which the women worked - alone, with other women, and even alongside men - to produce books for monastic libraries, and discussing why their work should have been made visible, whereas that of other female scribes remains invisible. Beach's focus on manuscript production, and the religious, intellectual, social and economic factors which shaped that production, enables her to draw wide-ranging conclusions of interest not only to palaeographers but also to those interested in reading, literacy, religion and gender history.

Author : Jennifer Bain
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108471358
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Hildegard of Bingen written by Jennifer Bain and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the extraordinary life and works of Hildegard of Bingen, medieval writer, composer, visionary, and monastic founder.

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Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN 13 : 1580445004
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ladies, Whores, and Holy Women written by and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sourcebook presents editions and translations of seven fourteenth- and fifteenth-century texts that advance our understanding of gender, sexuality, and class in the late medieval German-speaking world. Three of the translated texts are fiction. Additionally, there is a religious treatise, a religious legend, an inventory of books, and a legal document. While each of these texts is instructive in and of itself, they gain in complexity when brought into dialogue with one another.

Author : Gertrud Jaron Lewis
Publisher : PIMS
ISBN 13 : 9780888441256
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book By Women, for Women, about Women written by Gertrud Jaron Lewis and published by PIMS. This book was released on 1996 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Virginia Blanton
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9782503549224
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nuns' Literacies in Medieval Europe written by Virginia Blanton and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume is the second in a series of three integrated publications, the first produced in 2013 as Nuns' Literacies in Medieval Europe: The Hull Dialogue. Like that volume, this collection of essays, focused on various aspects of nuns' literacies from the late seventh to the mid-sixteenth century, brings together the work of specialists to create a dialogue about the Latin and vernacular texts that were read, written, and exchanged by medieval nuns. It investigates literacy from palaeographical and textual perspectives, evidence of book ownership and exchange, and other more external evidence, both literary and historical. To highlight the benefits of cross-cultural comparison, contributions include case studies focused on northern and southern Europe, as well as the extreme north and west of the region. A number of essays illustrate nuns' active engagement with formal education, and with varied textual forms, such as the legal and epistolary, while others convey the different opportunities for studying examples of nuns' artistic literacy. The various discussions included here build collectively on the first volume to demonstrate the comparative experiences of medieval female religious who were reading, writing, teaching, composing, and illustrating at different times and in diverse geographical areas throughout medieval Europe.

Author : Virginia Blanton
Publisher : Brepols Pub
ISBN 13 : 9782503539720
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nuns' Literacies in Medieval Europe written by Virginia Blanton and published by Brepols Pub. This book was released on 2013 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection of essays...brings together specialists working on diverse geographical areas to create a dialogue about the Latin and vernacular texts nuns read, wrote, and exchanged, primarily in northern Europe form the eighth to the mid-sixteenth centuries....Drawing especially on the rich body of scholarship that currently exists about nuns and books in England, Germany, the Low Countries, and Sweden, these essays investigate the meaning of nuns' literacies in terms of reading and writing, Latin and the vernaculars."--Back cover.

Author : Diane Watt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780708313695
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Women in Their Communities written by Diane Watt and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives of women in religious communities in late medieval Europe are the main focus of this volume which brings together a body of original research by historians and literary scholars and discusses a variety of such communities in France, Germany and Wales. The perspective is also broadened to include the lives of women in relation to the local community in places as far apart as East Anglian and southern Italy.

Author : Virginia Blanton
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9782503554112
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nuns' Literacies in Medieval Europe written by Virginia Blanton and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume is the third in a series of three integrated publications, the first produced in 2013 as Nuns' Literacies in Medieval Europe: The Hull Dialogue and the second in 2015 as Nuns' Literacies in Medieval Europe: The Kansas City Dialogue. Whereas the first volume focused primarily on Northern Europe, the second expanded the range to include material in minority languages such as Old Norse and Old Irish and focused particularly on education and other textual forms, such as the epistolary and the legal. The third volume expands the range still further by including a larger selection of female religious, for instance, tertiaries, and further languages (for example, Danish and Hungarian), as well as engaging more explicitly on issues of adaptation of manuscript and early printed texts for a female readership. Like the previous volumes, this collection of essays, focused on various aspects of nuns' literacies from the late seventh to the mid-sixteenth century, brings together the work of specialists to create a dialogue about the Latin and vernacular texts that were read, written, and exchanged by medieval nuns. Contributors to this volume investigate the topic of literacy primarily from palaeographical and textual evidence and by discussing information about book ownership and production in convents.