Reform and resistance : formations of female subjectivity in early medieval ecclesiastical culture /

Scheck, Helene.

Reform and resistance : formations of female subjectivity in early medieval ecclesiastical culture / Helene Scheck. - Albany : SUNY Press, c2008. - xii, 238 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - SUNY series in medieval studies . - SUNY series in medieval studies. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-228) and index.

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.

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Hrotsvitha, ca. 935-ca. 975 --Criticism and interpretation.
Alcuin, 735-804 --Criticism and interpretation.


Geschichte 500-900


English literature--History and criticism.--Old English, ca. 450-1100
Christian literature, English (Middle)--History and criticism.
Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)--History and criticism.
Women in Christianity--History--Germany--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Christianity and literature--History--Germany--To 1500.
Religieuze literatuur.
Oudengels.
Vrouwen.
Kirche--Frau--Geschichte Mittelalter.
Frau--Kirche--Geschichte Mittelalter.
Frau--Christentum--Geschichte Mittelalter.
Christentum--Frau--Geschichte Mittelalter.
Kirche.
Frau.
Subjektivität.


Germany--Church history--To 843.
Germany--Church history--843-1517.
Europa (geografie)
Westeuropa.

PR166 / .S34 2008

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