Nuns' Literacies in Medieval Europe: The Kansas City Dialogue

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Virginia Blanton, Veronica O'Mara, Patricia Stoop (eds). Pages: 415 p. Illustrations:27 b/w, 8 col., 6 tables b/w. Language(s):English. Publication Year:2015. Brepols. ISBN: 978-2-503-54922-4. Hardback --- SUMMARY The present volume is the second in a series of three integrated publications, the first produced in 2013 as Nuns Literacies in Medieval Europe: The Hull Dialogue. Like that volume, this collection of essays, focused on various aspects of nuns literacies from the late seventh to the mid-sixteenth century, brings together the work of specialists to create a dialogue about the Latin and vernacular texts that were read, written, and exchanged by medieval nuns. It investigates literacy from palaeographical and textual perspectives, evidence of book ownership and exchange, and other more external evidence, both literary and historical. To highlight the benefits of cross-cultural comparison, contributions include case studies focused on northern and southern Europe, as well as the extreme north and west of the region. A number of essays illustrate nuns active engagement with formal education, and with varied textual forms, such as the legal and epistolary, while others convey the different opportunities for studying examples of nuns artistic literacy. The various discussions included here build collectively on the first volume to demonstrate the comparative experiences of medieval female religious who were reading, writing, teaching, composing, and illustrating at different times and in diverse geographical areas throughout medieval Europe. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Educating the Sisters Leoba and the Iconography of Learning in the Lives of Anglo-Saxon Women Religious, 660 780 HELENE SCHECK AND VIRGINIA BLANTON Collaborative Literacy and the Spiritual Education of Nuns at Helfta ULRIKE WIETHAUS From Reading to Writing: The Multiple Levels of Literacy of the Sister Scribes in the Brussels Convent of Jericho PATRICIA STOOP Her Book-Lined Cell: Irish Nuns and the Development of Texts, Translation, and Literacy in Late Medieval Spain ANDREA KNOX Nuns Making their Letters Literacy in Neapolitan Women s Convents: An Example of Female Handwriting in a Late Fifteenth-Century Accounts Ledger ANTONELLA AMBROSIO Step by Step: The Process of Writing a Manuscript in the Female Convent of Vadstena NILS DVERSTORP Nuns and Writing in Late Medieval England: The Quest Continues VERONICA O MARA Visualizing Meaning Implications for Female Monastic Literacy in the Reliefs from St. Liudger s at Werden KAREN BLOUGH The Visual Vernacular: The Construction of Communal Literacy at the Convent of Santa Maria in Pontetetto (Lucca) LORETTA VANDI Outside the Mainstream: Women as Readers, Scribes, and Illustrators of Books in Convents of the German-Speaking Regions ANNE WINSTON-ALLEN Engaging with Texts Líadain s Lament, Darerca s Life, and Íte s Ísucán: Evidence for Nuns Literacies in Early Ireland MAEVE CALLAN What Icelandic Nuns Read: The Convent of Reynistaður and the Literary Milieu in Fourteenth-Century Iceland SVANHILDUR ÓSKARSDÓTTIR Daily Life, Amor Dei, and Politics in the Letters of the Benedictine Nuns of Lüne in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries EVA SCHLOTHEUBER A Web of Texts: Sixteenth-Century Mystical Culture in the Arnhem Sint-Agnes Convent KEES SCHEPERS Literary Agency Courtly Habits: Monastic Women s Legal Literacy in Early Anglo-Saxon England ANDREW RABIN Making Their Mark: The Spectrum of Literacy among Godstow s Nuns, 1400 1550 EMILIE AMT The Personal and the Political: Ana de San Bartolomé s Version of the Discalced Carmelite Reform DARCY DONAHUE Bibliography Index of Manuscripts, Archival Documents, and Incunabula Index of Texts Index of Convents. Seller Inventory # ca3883

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