Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia. A Study of Manuscript Transmission and Monastic Culture, Hardback/Felice Lifshitz

This study of the intellectual culture of the women's monasteries of the Main Valley during the eighth century, based on analysis of the manuscripts produced and used by women religious, argues that the content of the women's books was overwhelmingly gender-egalitarian and frequently feminist (that is, resistant to patriarchal ideas). Publisher: Fordham University Press Author(s): Felice Lifshitz Illustration(s): 12 Black & White Illustrations2 Color Illustrations Number of pages: 368 Collection: Fordham Series in Medieval Studies Publication date: 2014 Dimensions: 235 x 157 x 30 Cover type: Hardback