The Scribes For Women's Convents in Late Medieval Germany /
Cyrus, Cynthia J.
The Scribes For Women's Convents in Late Medieval Germany / Cynthia J. Cyrus. - 1 online resource (432 p.)
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
While there has been a great tradition of scholarship in medieval manuscripts, most studies have focused on the details of manuscript production by male copyists. In this study, Cynthia J. Cyrus demonstrates the prevalence of manuscript production by women monastics and challenges current assumptions of how manuscripts circulated in the late medieval period. Drawing on extensive research into the surviving manuscripts of over 450 women's convents, the author assesses the genres common to women's convent libraries emphasizing a social rather than a codicological understanding of how manuscripts of women's libraries came to be copied. An engaging mix of biography, women's history, and book history, The Scribes for Women's Convents in Late Medieval Germany will change the way medieval manuscripts are understood and studied.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780802093691 9781442689084
10.3138/9781442689084 doi
Manuscripts, Medieval--Germany.
Monasticism and religious orders--History--Germany--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Scribes--History--Germany--To 1500.
Women in Christianity--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval.
Z106.5.G3 / C97 2009eb
091.0943
The Scribes For Women's Convents in Late Medieval Germany / Cynthia J. Cyrus. - 1 online resource (432 p.)
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
While there has been a great tradition of scholarship in medieval manuscripts, most studies have focused on the details of manuscript production by male copyists. In this study, Cynthia J. Cyrus demonstrates the prevalence of manuscript production by women monastics and challenges current assumptions of how manuscripts circulated in the late medieval period. Drawing on extensive research into the surviving manuscripts of over 450 women's convents, the author assesses the genres common to women's convent libraries emphasizing a social rather than a codicological understanding of how manuscripts of women's libraries came to be copied. An engaging mix of biography, women's history, and book history, The Scribes for Women's Convents in Late Medieval Germany will change the way medieval manuscripts are understood and studied.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780802093691 9781442689084
10.3138/9781442689084 doi
Manuscripts, Medieval--Germany.
Monasticism and religious orders--History--Germany--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Scribes--History--Germany--To 1500.
Women in Christianity--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval.
Z106.5.G3 / C97 2009eb
091.0943