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Women as Scribes: Book Production and Monastic Reform in Twelfth-Century Bavaria - Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology
Beach, Alison I. (College of William and Mary, Virginia)
Women as Scribes: Book Production and Monastic Reform in Twelfth-Century Bavaria - Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology
Beach, Alison I. (College of William and Mary, Virginia)
This is a study of the role of female scribes at three different religious communities in Bavaria in the twelfth century. It shows how the women's work - in extending the increased intellectual activity of the scriptoria - supported the revival of the monastic reform movements of that period.
212 pages, 30 b/w illus. 23 tables
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | April 29, 2004 |
ISBN13 | 9780521792431 |
Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 214 |
Dimensions | 170 × 244 × 13 mm · 614 g |