The Scribes for Women's Convents in Late Medieval Germany

by Cynthia J. Cyrus

While there has been a great tradition of scholarship in medieval manuscripts, most studies have focused on the details of manuscript production by male copyists. In this study, Cynthia J. Cyrus demonstrates the prevalence of manuscript production by women monastics and challenges current assumptions of how manuscripts circulated in the late medieval period. Drawing on extensive research into the surviving manuscripts of over 450 women's convents,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802093698
• ISBN13: 9780802093691
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher