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Religious women in early Carolingian Francia : a study of manuscript transmission and monastic culture / Felice Lifshitz.
LIBRA BX4220.G3 L54 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lifshitz, Felice, 1959- author.
- Series:
- Fordham series in medieval studies
- Fordham Series in Medieval Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Monastic and religious life of women--Germany--Main River Valley--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
- Monastic and religious life of women.
- Nuns--Germany--Main River Valley--Intellectual life.
- Nuns.
- Transmission of texts--Germany--Main River Valley--History--To 1500.
- Transmission of texts.
- Scriptoria--Germany--Main River Valley--History--To 1500.
- Scriptoria.
- History.
- Intellectual life.
- Germany--Main River Valley.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 349 pages) : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Introductions: People, Places, Things
- 1 Syneisactism and Reform: Gender Relations in the Anglo-Saxon Cultural Province in Francia 3
- 2 The Anglo-Saxon Cultural Province in Francia 16
- 3 The Gun(t)za and Abirhilt Manuscripts: Women and Their Books in the Anglo-Saxon Cultural Province in Francia 29
- Part 2 Textual Analysis
- 4 "I Am Crucified in Christ" (Galatians 2:20): The Kitzingen Crucifixion Miniature and Visions of the Apostle Paul 65
- 5 "We Interpret Spiritual Truths to People Possessed of the Spirit" (1 Corinthians 2:13): Studying the Bible with the Fathers of the Church 87
- 6 "The Sensual Man Does Not Perceive Those Things That Are of the Spirit of God" (1 Corinthians 2:14): History and Theology in the Stories of the Saints 112
- 7 "An Eternal Weight of Glory" (2 Corinthians 4:17): Discipline and Devotion in Monastic Life 148
- Part 3 Conclusions
- 8 "Concerning Virgins, I Have No Commandment of the Lord" (1 Corinthians 7:25): Consecrated Women and Altar Service in the Anglo-Saxon Cultural Province in Francia 185
- 9 "Through a Glass Darkly" (1 Corinthians 13:12): Textual Transmission and Historical Representation as Feminist Strategies in Early Medieval Europe 293.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780823256877
- 0823256871
- OCLC:
- 861678627
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