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Author:
Scheck, Helene. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2007061715
Title:
Reform and resistance : formations of female subjectivity in early medieval ecclesiastical culture / Helene Scheck.
Publisher:
SUNY Press,
Copyright Date:
2008
Description:
xii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subject:
English literature--Old English, ca. 450-1100--History and criticism.
Christian literature, English (Middle)--History and criticism.
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)--History and criticism.
Hrotsvitha,--approximately 935-approximately 975--Criticism and interpretation.
Women in Christianity--Germany--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Christianity and literature--Germany--History--To 1500.
Alcuin,--735-804--Criticism and interpretation.
Germany--Church history--To 843.
Germany--Church history--843-1517.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-228) and index.
Contents:
Women in/and early ecclesiastical culture: an overview -- The limits of orthodoxy: being female and female being under Charlemagne -- Soul searching: Alcuin of York and his circle of female scholars -- Redressing the female subject: women, transvestite saints, and the Anglo-Saxon Benedictine reform -- Resounding silences: Mary and Eve in Anglo-Saxon reform literature -- Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: claiming her voice -- Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: recasting female subjectivities.
Series:
SUNY series in medieval studies
ISBN:
0791474836
9780791474839
OCLC:
(OCoLC)172521661
LCCN:
2007036636
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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