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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series in medieval studiesPublication details: Albany : SUNY Press, c2008.Description: xii, 238 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780791474839 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0791474836 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 274/.03082 22
LOC classification:
  • PR166 .S34 2008
Other classification:
  • 18.05
  • 18.47
Online resources:
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.
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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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