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

By Felice Lifshitz

Book information

Publisher
Fordham University Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9780823256907
DOI
10.1515/9780823256907
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (13008284 bytes)
Pages
368\377
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 18:58:03

Description

This study of the intellectual culture of the women’s monasteries of the Main Valley during the eighth century, based on analysis of the manuscripts produced and used by women religious, argues that the content of the women’s books was overwhelmingly gender-egalitarian and frequently feminist (that is, resistant to patriarchal ideas).

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