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