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Author Cyrus, Cynthia J

Title The scribes for women's convents in late medieval Germany / Cynthia J. Cyrus
Published Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2009 (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Gibson Library Connections, 2010)

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 387 pages)
Contents 1. Of Monasteries and Their Scribes -- 2. Structuring Scribal Relationships -- 3. Content of Convent Manuscripts go -- 4. Scribe as Individual -- 5. Why Scribes Serve -- 6. Conclusion -- Appendix A. Distribution of Known Scribes and of Surviving Manuscripts by Monastic Order -- Appendix B. Forty-eight Women's Convents with Active Scriptoria in Late Medieval Germany
Summary Cyrus demonstrates the prevalence of manuscript production by women monastics and challenges current assumptions of how manuscripts circulated in the late medieval period
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Subject Scribes -- Germany -- History -- To 1500
Women in Christianity -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Monasticism and religious orders -- Germany -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
Manuscripts, Medieval -- Germany
ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval.
Manuscripts, Medieval
Monasticism and religious orders -- Middle Ages
Scribes
Women in Christianity -- Middle Ages
Germany
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442689084
1442689080