Women as scribes: book production and monastic reform in twelfth-century bavaria
Auteur :
Beach, Alison I.
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521126946
Date de publication :
3 déc. 2009
Dimensions :
24,4 x 17,0 x 1,2 cm
Poids :
350 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
This is a study of the role of female scribes at three different religious communities in Bavaria in the twelfth century. It shows how the women's work - in extending the increased intellectual activity of the scriptoria - supported the revival of the monastic reform movements of that period.