Carolingian Aristocratic Women and the Transmission of Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Carolingian Aristocratic Women and the Transmission of Culture write by Valerie Louise Garver. This book was released on 2004. Carolingian Aristocratic Women and the Transmission of Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World
Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World write by Valerie L. Garver. This book was released on 2012-05-08. Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite the wealth of scholarship in recent decades on medieval women, we still know much less about the experiences of women in the early Middle Ages than we do about those in later centuries. In Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World, Valerie L. Garver offers a fresh appraisal of the cultural and social history of eighth- and ninth-century women. Examining changes in women's lives and in the ways others perceived women during the early Middle Ages, she shows that lay and religious women, despite their legal and social constrictions, played integral roles in Carolingian society. Garver's innovative book employs an especially wide range of sources, both textual and material, which she uses to construct a more complex and nuanced impression of aristocratic women than we've seen before. She looks at the importance of female beauty and adornment; the family and the construction of identities and collective memory; education and moral exemplarity; wealth, hospitality and domestic management; textile work, and the lifecycle of elite Carolingian women. Her interdisciplinary approach makes deft use of canons of church councils, chronicles, charters, polyptychs, capitularies, letters, poetry, exegesis, liturgy, inventories, hagiography, memorial books, artworks, archaeological remains, and textiles. Ultimately, Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World underlines the centrality of the Carolingian era to the reshaping of antique ideas and the development of lasting social norms.
Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World
Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World write by Valerie Louise Garver. This book was released on 2012. Women and Aristocratic Culture in the Carolingian World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Carolingians in Central Europe, Their History, Arts, and Architecture
The Carolingians in Central Europe, Their History, Arts, and Architecture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Carolingians in Central Europe, Their History, Arts, and Architecture write by Herbert Schutz. This book was released on 2004. The Carolingians in Central Europe, Their History, Arts, and Architecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is an attempt to focus where pertinent on the Carolingian cultural inventory produced and assembled in the libraries, museums and architectural sites of Central Europe. This inventory allows conclusions which demonstrate the originality of the literary, artistic and architectural efforts.
Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia
Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia write by Felice Lifshitz. This book was released on 2014-05-01. Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 Mainz and his “beloved,”abbess Leoba of Tauberbischofsheim. This is the first study of these “Anglo-Saxon missionaries to Germany” to delve into the details of their lives by studying the manuscripts that were produced in their scriptoria and used in their communities. The author explores how one group of religious women helped to shape the culture of medieval Europe through the texts they wrote and copied, as well as through their editorial interventions. Using compelling manuscript evidence, she argues that the content of the women’s books was overwhelmingly gender-egalitarian and frequently feminist (i.e., resistant to patriarchal ideas). This intriguing book provides unprecedented glimpses into the “feminist consciousness” of the women’s and mixed-sex communities that flourished in the early Middle Ages.
