Religious women in early Carolingian Francia : a study of manuscript transmission and monastic culture / Felice Lifshitz.

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This study of the intellectual culture of the women's monasteries of the Main Valley during the eighth century, based on analysis of the manuscripts produced and used by women religious, argues that the content of the women's books was overwhelmingly gender-egalitarian and frequently feminist (that is, resistant to patriarchal ideas)"-- Provided by publisher.

"Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia, a groundbreaking study of the intellectual and monastic culture of the Main Valley during the eighth century, looks closely at a group of manuscripts associated with some of the best-known personalities of the European Middle Ages, including Boniface of Mainz and his "beloved,"abbess Leoba of Tauberbischofsheim. This is the first study of these "Anglo-Saxon missionaries to Germany" to delve into the details of their lives by studying the manuscripts that were produced in their scriptoria and used in their communities. The author explores how one group of religious women helped to shape the culture of medieval Europe through the texts they wrote and copied, as well as through their editorial interventions. Using compelling manuscript evidence, she argues that the content of the women's books was overwhelmingly gender-egalitarian and frequently feminist (i.e., resistant to patriarchal ideas). This intriguing book provides unprecedented glimpses into the "feminist consciousness" of the women's and mixed-sex communities that flourished in the early Middle Ages"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

List of Color Plates

List of Abbreviations

Preface: Medieval Feminism

Acknowledgments

Part I: Introductions: People, Places, Things

1. Syneisactism and Reform: Gender Relations in the Anglo-Saxon Cultural Province in Francia

2. The Monastic Landscape of the Anglo-Saxon Cultural Province in Francia

3. The Gun(t)za and Abirhilt Manuscripts: Women and their Books in the Anglo-Saxon Cultural Province in Francia

Part II: Textual Analysis

4. "I am Crucified in Christ" (Galatians 2:20): The Kitzingen Crucifixion Miniature and Visions of the Apostle Paul

5. "We Interpret Spiritual Truths to People Possessed of the Spirit" (1 Cor. 2:13): Studying the Bible with the Fathers of the Church

6. "The Sensual Man does not Perceive those Things that are of the Spirit of God" (1 Cor. 2:14): History and Theology in the Stories of the Saints"

7. "An Eternal Weight of Glory" (2 Cor. 4: 17): Discipline and Devotion in Monastic Life

Part III: Conclusions

8. "Now Concerning Virgins, I Have No Commandment of the Lord" (1 Cor. 7:25): Consecrated Women and Altar Service in the Anglo-Saxon Cultural Province in Francia

9. "Through a Glass Darkly" (1 Cor. 13:12): Textual Transmission and Historical Representation as Feminist Strategies in Early Medieval Europe

Notes

Bibliography: Manuscripts and Printed Materials

Index.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780823256891

0823256898

9780823256907

0823256901

9780823261420

0823261425

9780823256884

082325688X

OCLC:

878144593