TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cyrus,Cynthia J.
TI  - The Scribes For Women's Convents in Late Medieval Germany
SN  - 9780802093691
AV  - Z106.5.G3 C97 2009eb
U1  - 091.0943 
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - Manuscripts, Medieval
KW  - Germany
KW  - Monasticism and religious orders
KW  - History
KW  - Middle Ages, 600-1500
KW  - Scribes
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Women in Christianity
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442689084
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781442689084/original
ER  -