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198 pages : 26 cm "Professor Beach's book on female scribes in twelfth-century Bavaria - the first 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, and religious and gender history."--BOOK JACKET Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Columbia University Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-191) and index

Author

Beach, Alison I.

Publisher

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York: Cambridge University Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780521792431

Subjects

Crafts & Hobbies, History, Reference

Updated

2026-03-24