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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782126603321

Autore

Scheck Helene

Titolo

Reform and resistance [[electronic resource] ] : formations of female subjectivity in early medieval ecclesiastical culture / / Helene Scheck

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : SUNY Press, c2008

ISBN

0-7914-7813-0

1-4356-6327-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in medieval studies

Disciplina

274/.03082

Soggetti

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

Women in Christianity - Germany - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500

Christianity and literature - Germany - History - To 1500

Germany Church history To 843

Germany Church history 843-1517

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.