Women as Scribes
Book Production and Monastic Reform in Twelfth-Century Bavaria
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Part of Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology
- Author: Alison I. Beach, College of William and Mary, Virginia
- Date Published: April 2004
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521792431
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Professor Beach's book on female scribes in twelfth-century Bavaria - a full-length study of the role of women copyists in the Middle Ages - is underpinned by the notion that the scriptorium was central to the intellectual revival of the Middle Ages and that women played a role in this renaissance. The author examines the exceptional quantity of evidence of female scribal activity in three different religious communities, pointing out the various ways in which the women worked - alone, with other women, and even alongside men - to produce books for monastic libraries, and discussing why their work should have been made visible, whereas that of other female scribes remains invisible. Beach's focus on manuscript production, and the religious, intellectual, social and economic factors which shaped that production, enables her to draw wide-ranging conclusions of interest not only to palaeographers but also to those interested in reading, literacy, religion and gender history.
Read more- Of importance not only to palaeographers but also to historians interested in the twelfth-century Renaissance in Germany
- A useful contribution to the study of reading, literacy and the history of the book
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Review of the hardback: 'Beach has studied her women with rigour and sensitivity providing a durable account of their work, fascinating observations on their interrelations with male counterparts, and thought-provoking reflections on their place in twelfth-century spiritual culture. As an illustration of the contribution that palaeography can make to intellectual and religious as well as bibliographical history, Women as Scribes deserves a wide readership.' The Library
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- Date Published: April 2004
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521792431
- length: 214 pages
- dimensions: 244 x 170 x 13 mm
- weight: 0.54kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Diemut and the nun-scribes of Wessobrunn
3. Claustration and collaboration: the nun-scribes of Admont
4. Unlikely allies in the scriptorium: the female scribes of Schäftlarn
5. Conclusion
Appendix A. Codicological tables
Appendix B. Ruling patterns
Bibliography
Index.
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