Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia: A Study of Manuscript Transmission and Monastic Culture

by Felice Lifshitz

Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia, a groundbreaking study of the intellectual and monastic culture of the Main Valley during the eighth century, looks closely at a group of manuscripts associated with some of the best-known personalities of the European Middle Ages, including Boniface of Mainz and his "beloved,"abbess Leoba of Tauberbischofsheim. This is the first study of these "Anglo-Saxon missionaries to Germany" to delve into the details...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823256871
• ISBN13: 9780823256877
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"