Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia : A Study of Manuscript Transmission and Monastic Culture / Felice Lifshitz.
Lifshitz, Felice, author.
2014
BX4220.G3 L54 2014
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Title
Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia : A Study of Manuscript Transmission and Monastic Culture / Felice Lifshitz.
Author
Lifshitz, Felice, author.
ISBN
9780823256907
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823256907
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2014]
Copyright
©2014
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (368 p.) : 12 color and black & white illustrations
Item Number
10.1515/9780823256907 doi
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BX4220.G3 L54 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification
271/.900434
Summary
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.
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Fordham Series in Medieval Studies
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Frontmatter
Contents
List of Maps and Color Plates
List of Abbreviations
Preface: Medieval Feminism
Acknowledgments
Part One. Introductions: People, Places, Things
1 Syneisactism and Reform: Gender Relations in the Anglo- Saxon Cultural Province in Francia
2 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 Two. 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 Corinthians 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 Corinthians 2:14): History and Theology in the Stories of the Saints
7 "An Eternal Weight of Glory" (2 Corinthians 4:17): Discipline and Devotion in Monastic Life
Part Three. 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
9 "Through a Glass Darkly" (1 Corinthians 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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