Nuns' literacies in medieval Europe : the Hull dialogue / edited by Virginia Blanton, Veronica O'Mara and Patricia Stoop.

• Literacy and nuns : finding and interpreting the evidence -- Language and literacy : Latin and the vernacular -- Literate nuns : reading and writing in the convent -- Authorship and nuns : writing by the nun for the nun.
• Introduction Literacy and Nuns: Finding and Interpreting the Evidence Reading Women at the Margins of Quedlinburg Codex - Helene Scheck Making History at Fontevraud: Abbess Petronilla de Chemillé and Practical Literacy - Bruce L. Venarde 'Mathild de Niphin' and the Female Scribes of Twelfth-Century Zwiefalten - Alison I. Beach Rendering Accounts: The Pragmatic Literacy of Nuns in Late Medieval England - Marilyn Oliva The Late Medieval English Nun and her Scribal Activity: A Complicated Quest - Veronica O'Mara Language and Literacy: Latin and the Vernacular Nuns and Latin, with Special Reference to the Birgittines of Vadstena - Monica Hedlund Vernacular and Latinate Literacy in Viennese Women's Convents - Cynthia J.
• Cyrus Praying in the Vernacular: Middle Dutch Imitative Forms of the Divine Office from the 1370s to 1520s - Thom Mertens Literate Nuns: Reading and Writing in the Convent Conceiving the Word(s): Habits of Literacy among Earlier Anglo‑Saxon Monastic Women - Lisa M. C. Weston The Literary Culture of the Anglo‑Saxon Royal Nunneries: Romsey and London, British Library, MS Lansdowne 436 - Stephanie Hollis The Devotional Reading of Nuns: Three Legendaries of Native Saints in Late Medieval England - Virginia Blanton Between Court and Cloister: Royal Patronage and Nuns' Literacy in Medieval East-Central Europe - Alfred Thomas Books in Texts — Texts in Books: The St.
• Georgener Predigten as an Example of Nuns' Literacy in Late Medieval Germany - Regina Dorothea Schiewer The Birgittine Sisters at Vadstena Abbey: Their Learning and Literacy, with Particular Reference to Table Reading - Jonas Carlquist Vadstena Abbey and Female Literacy in Late Medieval Sweden - Ingela Hedström Authorship and Nuns: Writing by the Nun for the Nun Writing, Editing, and Rearranging: Griet Essinchghes and her Version of the Sister-Book of Diepenveen - Wybren Scheepsma Nuns' Literacy in Sixteenth‑Century Convent Sermons from the Cistercian Abbey of Ter Kameren - Patricia Stoop Bibliography Index of Manuscripts, Archival Documents, and Incunabula Index of Texts Index of Convents Index of People.

• This is the first concentrated study to examine the literacy of nuns in a comparative fashion and at the same time pays close attention to the individual textual and cultural complexities. 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. 

Ämnesord

Medeltiden  (sao)

Latinsk litteratur  -- historia (sao)

Nuns as authors  -- Europe, Northern -- History -- To 1500. (LCSH)

Nuns' writings  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Latin literature  -- Christian authors -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)  -- Europe, Northern -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Literacy  -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. (LCSH)

Läs- och skrivkunnighet  (kao)

Språkområde: latin  (kao)

Literacy  (kao//eng)

Language area: Latin  (kao//eng)

Nunnor  -- kloster -- Europa -- medeltiden (kao)

Nuns  -- convents -- Europe -- Middle Ages (kao//eng)

Nunnor  -- historia (sao)

Böcker och läsning  -- historia (sao)

Uppbyggelselitteratur  -- historia (sao)

Läs- och skrivkunnighet  -- religiösa aspekter (sao)

Middle Ages  (LCSH)

Europe--History--476-1492  (LCSH)

Nordeuropa 

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Ckt Andliga ordnar och klosterväsen

G:oa Litteratursociologi

Goc Litteraturhistoria: latin

Ci Uppbyggelselitteratur

Em-a:k.3 Undervisningsväsen: allmänt: Europa: historia: medeltiden

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