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Women and the book : assessing the visual evidence / edited by Lesley Smith and Jane H.M. Taylor.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- St. Hilda's Conference on Women and the Book in the Middle Ages (1993 : St. Hilda's College, University of Oxford)
- Series:
- British Library studies in medieval culture
- The British Library studies in medieval culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women and literature--History.
- Women and literature.
- Women in literature--History.
- Women in literature.
- Women--Books and reading--History.
- Women.
- Women--Books and reading.
- History.
- Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.
- Literature, Medieval.
- Women in art.
- Art, Medieval--Themes, motives.
- Art, Medieval.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 287 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles (some color) ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : British Library ; Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 1996 [that is, 1997]
- Summary:
- This Collection of Commissioned Essays Re-evaluates the role of medieval women as readers, authors, and subjects of books, and the depiction of the relationships between women and books in medieval art. The fourteen essays cover such diverse topics as the development of a female audience for books, examinations of illuminations of and for women in books of hours, and how female authors viewed themselves, as well as the manufacture and collection of books and images by women.
- Dealing specifically with the relationships between women and images, the volume will be of interest to art historians, feminist scholars, and historians alike.
- Notes:
- "The papers published in this volume consist in part of papers read at the St Hilda's Conference on Women and the Book in the Middle Ages, held in 1993, and in part of papers independently commissioned."--P. 11.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0712304983
- 0802042163
- 0802080693
- OCLC:
- 36761148
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