Nuns' literacies in medieval Europe : the Kansas City dialogue /
"This present volume is the second in an integrated series of three and focused on the literacies of nuns in medieval Europe, brings together specialists working on diverse geographical areas to create a dialogue about the Latin and vernacular texts nuns read, wrote, and exchanged from the eigh...
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| Format: | Conference Proceeding Book |
| Language: | English |
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Turnhout :
Brepols,
[2015]
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| Series: | Medieval women--texts and contexts ;
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Table of Contents:
- Leoba and the iconography of learning in the lives of Anglo-Saxon women religious, 600-780 / Virginia Blanton and Helene Scheck
- Collaborative literacy and the spiritual education of nuns at Helfta / Ulrike Wiethaus
- From reading to writing: the multiple levels of literacy of the sister scribes in the Brussels Convent of Jericho / Patricia Stoop
- Her book-lined cell: Irish nuns and the development of texts, translation, and literacy in late medieval Spain / Andrea Knox
- Literacy in Neapolitan women's convents: an example of female handwriting in a late fifteenth-century accounts ledger / Antonella Ambrosio
- Step by step: the process of writing a manuscript in the female convent of Vadstena / Nils Dverstorp
- Nuns and writing in late medieval England: the quest continues / Veronica O'Mara
- Implications for female monastic literacy in the reliefs from St. Liudger's at Werden / Karen Blough
- The visual vernacular: the construction of communal literacy at the convent of Santa Maria in Pontetetto (Lucca) / Loretta Vandi
- Outside the mainstream: women as readers, scribes, and Illustrators of books in convents of the German-speaking regions / Anne Winston-Allen
- Líadain's Lament, Darerca's Life, and Íte's Ísucán: evidence for nuns' literacies in early Ireland / Maeve Callan
- What Icelandic nuns read: the Convent of Reynistaður and the literary milieu in fourteenth-century Iceland / Svanhildur Óskarsdóttir
- Daily life, Amor Dei, and politics in the letters of the Benedictine nuns of Lüne in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / Eva Schlotheueber
- A web of texts: sixteenth-century mystical culture and the Arnhem Sint-Agnes Convent / Kees Schepers
- Courtly habits: monastic women's legal literacy in early Anglo-Saxon England / Andrew Rabin
- Making their mark: the spectrum of literacy among Godstow's nuns, 1400-1550 / Emile Amt
- The personal and the political: Ana de San Bartolomé's version of the Discalced Carmelite reform / Darcy Donahue.