LEADER 05272nam 2200805 a 450 001 9910457366603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-21167-X 010 $a9786613211675 010 $a0-8122-0211-2 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812202113 035 $a(CKB)2550000000051291 035 $a(OCoLC)759158220 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10491971 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000543775 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11343109 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000543775 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10531189 035 $a(PQKB)11739992 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441514 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8346 035 $a(DE-B1597)449070 035 $a(OCoLC)1013960918 035 $a(OCoLC)1029816914 035 $a(OCoLC)1032676179 035 $a(OCoLC)1037979791 035 $a(OCoLC)1041996670 035 $a(OCoLC)1046613912 035 $a(OCoLC)1047016793 035 $a(OCoLC)1049676550 035 $a(OCoLC)1054879243 035 $a(OCoLC)979576175 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812202113 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441514 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10491971 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL321167 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000051291 100 $a20060623d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe garden of delights$b[electronic resource] $ereform and renaissance for women in the twelfth century /$fFiona J. Griffiths 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (390 p.) 225 1 $aThe Middle Ages series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-3960-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Reform and the Cura monialium at Hohenbourg -- $t2. The Hortus deliciarum: A Book for Reform and Renaissance -- $t3. A Bee in the Garden of the Lord -- $t4. From Nectar to Honeycomb: Constructing the Hortus -- $t5. The Tree of Knowledge -- $t6. The Pleasure Garden of Learning: Reading the Hortus -- $t7. Reforming Women in the Garden of Delights -- $tConclusion: A Book for Women? -- $tAppendix: Latin Texts and Translations -- $tAbbreviations -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex -- $tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn The Garden of Delights, Fiona J. Griffiths offers the first major study of the Hortus deliciarum, a magnificently illuminated manuscript of theology, biblical history, and canon law written both by and explicitly for women at the end of the twelfth century. In so doing she provides a brilliantly persuasive new reading of female monastic culture. Through careful analysis of the contents, structure, and organization of the Hortus, Griffiths argues for women's profound engagement with the spiritual and intellectual vitality of the period on a level previously thought unimaginable, overturning the assumption that women were largely excluded from the "renaissance" and "reform" of this period. As a work of scholarship that drew from a wide range of sources, both monastic and scholastic, the Hortus provides a witness to the richness of women's reading practices within the cloister, demonstrating that it was possible, even late into the twelfth century, for communities of religious women to pursue an educational program that rivaled that available to men. At the same time, the manuscript's reformist agenda reveals how women engaged the pressing spiritual questions of the day, even going so far as to criticize priests and other churchmen who fell short of their reformist ideals.Through her wide-ranging examination of the texts and images of the Hortus, their sources, composition, and function, Griffiths offers an integrated understanding of the whole manuscript, one which highlights women's Latin learning and orthodox spirituality. The Garden of Delights contributes to some of the most urgent questions concerning medieval religious women, the interplay of gender, spirituality, and intellectual engagement, to discussions concerning women scribes and writers, women readers, female authorship and authority, and the visual culture of female communities. It will be of interest to art historians, scholars of women's and gender studies, historians of medieval religion, education, and theology, and literary scholars studying questions of female authorship and models of women's reading. 410 0$aMiddle Ages series. 606 $aMonastic and religious life of women$zGermany$xHistory$yMiddle Ages, 600-1500 606 $aWomen in Christianity$zGermany$xHistory$yMiddle Ages, 600-1500 606 $aChristian women$xReligious life$zGermany$xHistory$y12th century 607 $aGermany$xChurch history$y843-1517 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMonastic and religious life of women$xHistory 615 0$aWomen in Christianity$xHistory 615 0$aChristian women$xReligious life$xHistory 676 $a271/.90094309021 700 $aGriffiths$b Fiona J$01033421 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457366603321 996 $aThe garden of delights$92451971 997 $aUNINA