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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lifshitz, Felice, 1959- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
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.