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In "The Garden of Delights," Fiona J. Griffiths offers the first major study of the "Hortus deliciarum," a magnificently illuminated manuscript of theology, biblical history, and canon law written both by and explicitly for women at the end of the twelfth century. In so doing she provides a brilliantly persuasive new reading of female monastic culture. Through careful analysis of the contents, structure, and organization of the "Hortus," Griffiths argues for women's profound engagement with the spiritual and intellectual vitality of the period on a level previously thought unimaginable, overturning the assumption that women were largely excluded from the "renaissance" and "reform" of this period. As a work of scholarship that drew from a wide range of sources, both monastic and scholastic, the "Hortus" provides a witness to the richness of women's reading practices within the cloister, demonstrating that it was possible, even late into the twelfth century, for communities of religious women to pursue an educational program that rivaled that available to men. At the same time, the manuscript's reformist agenda reveals how women engaged the pressing spiritual questions of the day, ev

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Author

Fiona J. Griffiths

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press ; University Presses Marketing [distributor

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781283211673

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Science, Philosophy