| Women as Scribes: Book Production and Monastic Reform in Twelfth-Century Bavaria Contributor(s): Beach, Alison I. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521126940 ISBN-13: 9780521126946 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $40.84 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines - Art | Techniques - Calligraphy - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 745.61 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology |
| Physical Information: 0.46" H x 6.69" W x 9.61" (0.77 lbs) 216 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Alison Beach's book on female scribes in twelfth-century Bavaria is based on the belief that the scriptorium was vital to the intellectual revival of the Middle Ages and that women played a role in this renaissance. Beach's focus on manuscript production at three rather different religious houses, and the religious, intellectual, social and economic factors which influenced that production, enables her to draw wide-ranging conclusions of interest to palaeographers as well as others interested in religious and gender history. |