Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia : : A Study of Manuscript Transmission and Monastic Culture /

Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia : : A Study of Manuscript Transmission and Monastic Culture / / Felice Lifshitz.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Lifshitz, Felice,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Fordham Series in Medieval Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.) :; 12 color and black & white illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Maps and Color Plates
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Preface: Medieval Feminism
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part One. Introductions: People, Places, Things
  • 1 Syneisactism and Reform: Gender Relations in the Anglo- Saxon Cultural Province in Francia
  • 2 The Anglo- Saxon Cultural Province in Francia
  • 3 The Gun(t)za and Abirhilt Manuscripts: Women and Their Books in the Anglo- Saxon Cultural Province in Francia
  • Part Two. Textual Analysis
  • 4 “I Am Crucified in Christ” (Galatians 2:20): The Kitzingen Crucifixion Miniature and Visions of the Apostle Paul
  • 5 “We Interpret Spiritual Truths to People Possessed of the Spirit” (1 Corinthians 2:13): Studying the Bible with the Fathers of the Church
  • 6 “The Sensual Man Does Not Perceive Those Things That Are of the Spirit of God” (1 Corinthians 2:14): History and Theology in the Stories of the Saints
  • 7 “An Eternal Weight of Glory” (2 Corinthians 4:17): Discipline and Devotion in Monastic Life
  • Part Three. Conclusions
  • 8 “Concerning Virgins, I Have No Commandment of the Lord” (1 Corinthians 7:25): Consecrated Women and Altar Service in the Anglo- Saxon Cultural Province in
  • 9 “Through a Glass Darkly” (1 Corinthians 13:12): Textual Transmission and Historical Representation as Feminist Strategies in Early Medieval Europe
  • Notes
  • Bibliography: Manuscripts and Printed Materials
  • Index

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