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