Nuns’ Literacies in Medieval Europe: The Hull Dialogue English; Middle English: 26 (Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts, 26) - Hardcover

O'mara, Veronica; Stoop, Patricia

 
9782503539720: Nuns’ Literacies in Medieval Europe: The Hull Dialogue English; Middle English: 26 (Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts, 26)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 2503539726 ISBN 13: 9782503539720
Verlag: Brepols, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

This collection of essays, focused on the literacies of nuns in medieval Europe, brings together specialists working on diverse geographical areas to create a dialogue about the Latin and vernacular texts nuns read, wrote, and exchanged, primarily in northern Europe from the eighth to the mid-sixteenth centuries. To date, there has been some significant research in this field but little in the way of cross-cultural study. Drawing especially on the rich body of scholarship that currently exists about nuns and books in England, Germany, the Low Countries, and Sweden, these essays investigate the meaning of nuns' literacies in terms of reading and writing, Latin and the vernaculars. Contributors to this volume investigate the topic of literacy primarily from palaeographical and textual evidence and by discussing information about book ownership and book production in convents. In this first concentrated study that examines the literacy of nuns in a comparative fashion the essays pay close attention to the individual textual and cultural complexities of nuns' literacies in the European Middle Ages.

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This collection of essays, focused on the literacies of nuns in medieval Europe, brings together specialists working on diverse geographical areas to create a dialogue about the Latin and vernacular texts nuns read, wrote, and exchanged, primarily in northern Europe from the eighth to the mid-sixteenth centuries. To date, there has been some significant research in this field but little in the way of cross-cultural study. Drawing especially on the rich body of scholarship that currently exists about nuns and books in England, Germany, the Low Countries, and Sweden, these essays investigate the meaning of nuns' literacies in terms of reading and writing, Latin and the vernaculars. Contributors to this volume investigate the topic of literacy primarily from palaeographical and textual evidence and by discussing information about book ownership and book production in convents. In this first concentrated study that examines the literacy of nuns in a comparative fashion the essays pay close attention to the individual textual and cultural complexities of nuns' literacies in the European Middle Ages.

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Verlag
Brepols
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
2503539726
ISBN 13 
9782503539720
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
400
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