| MWTC 26 Nuns Literacies: The Hull Dialogue, O'Mara: The Hull Dialogue Contributor(s): Blanton, Virginia (Editor), O'Mara, Veronica (Editor), Stoop, Patricia (Editor) |
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ISBN: 2503539726 ISBN-13: 9782503539720 Publisher: Brepols Publishers OUR PRICE: $131.10 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Language: English, Middle (1100-1500) Published: June 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Medieval - Literary Criticism | Books & Reading |
| Dewey: 028.9 |
| Series: Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.4" W x 9.4" (1.76 lbs) 370 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |