Religious women in early Carolingian Francia : a study of manuscript transmission and monastic culture /
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...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2014.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Fordham series in medieval studies.
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Table of Contents:
- List of Color Plates
- List of Abbreviations
- Preface: Medieval Feminism
- Acknowledgments
- Part I: Introductions: People, Places, Things
- 1. Syneisactism and Reform: Gender Relations in the Anglo-Saxon Cultural Province in Francia
- 2. The Monastic Landscape of 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 II: 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 Cor. 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 Cor. 2:14): History and Theology in the Stories of the Saints"
- 7. "An Eternal Weight of Glory" (2 Cor. 4: 17): Discipline and Devotion in Monastic Life
- Part III: Conclusions
- 8. "Now Concerning Virgins, I Have No Commandment of the Lord" (1 Cor. 7:25): Consecrated Women and Altar Service in the Anglo-Saxon Cultural Province in Francia
- 9. "Through a Glass Darkly" (1 Cor. 13:12): Textual Transmission and Historical Representation as Feminist Strategies in Early Medieval Europe
- Notes
- Bibliography: Manuscripts and Printed Materials
- Index.