Women as Scribes - 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 as Scribes write by Alison I. Beach. This book was released on 2004-04-29. Women as Scribes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Professor Beach's book on female scribes in twelfth-century Bavaria - a full-length study of the role of women copyists in the Middle Ages - is underpinned by the notion that the scriptorium was central to the intellectual revival of the Middle Ages and that women played a role in this renaissance. The author examines the exceptional quantity of evidence of female scribal activity in three different religious communities, pointing out the various ways in which the women worked - alone, with other women, and even alongside men - to produce books for monastic libraries, and discussing why their work should have been made visible, whereas that of other female scribes remains invisible. Beach's focus on manuscript production, and the religious, intellectual, social and economic factors which shaped that production, enables her to draw wide-ranging conclusions of interest not only to palaeographers but also to those interested in reading, literacy, religion and gender history.
The Scribes for Women's Convents in Late Medieval Germany
The Scribes for Women's Convents in Late Medieval Germany - 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 Scribes for Women's Convents in Late Medieval Germany write by Cynthia J. Cyrus. This book was released on 2009-01-01. The Scribes for Women's Convents in Late Medieval Germany available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cyrus demonstrates the prevalence of manuscript production by women monastics and challenges current assumptions of how manuscripts circulated in the late medieval period.
The Gilded Page
The Gilded Page - 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 Gilded Page write by Mary Wellesley. This book was released on 2021-10-12. The Gilded Page available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A breathtaking journey into the hidden history of medieval manuscripts, from the Lindisfarne Gospels to the ornate Psalter of Henry VIII “A delight—immersive, conversational, and intensely visual, full of gorgeous illustrations and shimmering description.” –Helen Castor, author of She-Wolves Medieval manuscripts can tell us much about power and art, knowledge and beauty. Many have survived because of an author’s status—part of the reason we have so much of Chaucer’s writing, for example, is because he was a London-based government official first and a poet second. Other works by the less influential have narrowly avoided ruin, like the book of illiterate Margery Kempe, found in a country house closet, the cover nibbled on by mice. Scholar Mary Wellesley recounts the amazing origins of these remarkable manuscripts, surfacing the important roles played by women and ordinary people—the grinders, binders, and scribes—in their creation and survival. The Gilded Page is the story of the written word in the manuscript age. Rich and surprising, it shows how the most exquisite objects ever made by human hands came from unexpected places. “Mary Wellesley is a born storyteller and The Gilded Page is as good as historical writing gets. This is a sensational debut by a wonderfully gifted historian.” —Dan Jones, bestselling author of The Plantagenets and The Templars
Women's Writing of Ancient Mesopotamia
Women's Writing of Ancient Mesopotamia - 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's Writing of Ancient Mesopotamia write by Charles Halton. This book was released on 2018. Women's Writing of Ancient Mesopotamia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This anthology translates and discusses texts authored by women of ancient Mesopotamia.
Medieval Women
Medieval Women - 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 Medieval Women write by Deirdre Jackson. This book was released on 2015. Medieval Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Our understanding of the lives and roles of medieval women has changed dramatically in recent years. Far from being background characters of the middle ages, women often wielded an influence beyond their expected station. Many women fortunate enough to receive an education became patrons of literature, particularly secular tales of adventure and romance. Some bold pioneers became writers themselves. Others commissioned, or had dedicated to them, the earliest historical chronicles, bestiaries, and treatises on healthcare and military prowess. This book celebrates the importance that women across Europe assigned to reading and literature, and the many ways women advanced medieval culture.
