Beach Alison I., Alison I. Beach

Women as Scribes

Book Production and Monastic Reform in Twelfth-Century Bavaria

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This study shows how female scribes contributed to the intellectual revival of the Middle Ages.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 382g
• ISBN-13: 9780521126946
• ISBN-10: 0521126940
• Artikelnr.: 27987199

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Diemut and the nun-scribes of Wessobrunn
3. Claustration and collaboration: the nun-scribes of Admont
4. Unlikely allies in the scriptorium: the female scribes of Schäftlarn
5. Conclusion
Appendix A. Codicological tables
Appendix B. Ruling patterns
Bibliography
Index.