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Women as Scribes - Book Production and Monastic Reform in Twelfth-Century Bavaria (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,691
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Women as Scribes - Book Production and Monastic Reform in Twelfth-Century Bavaria (Hardcover): Alison I. Beach

Women as Scribes - Book Production and Monastic Reform in Twelfth-Century Bavaria (Hardcover)

Alison I. Beach

Series: Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology

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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.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology
Release date: April 2004
First published: 2004
Authors: Alison I. Beach
Dimensions: 244 x 170 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-79243-1
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Palaeography
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 500 to 1500
Books > Humanities > History > European history > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > History > European history > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > History > World history > 500 to 1500
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LSN: 0-521-79243-6
Barcode: 9780521792431

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