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Informationen zum Autor Felice Lifshitz is Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and of Religious Studies at the University of Alberta. Klappentext 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). Zusammenfassung 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). Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Color Plates List of Abbreviations Preface: Medieval Feminism Acknowledgments Part I: Introductions: People! Places! Things 1. Syneisactism and Reform: Gender Relations in the Anglo-Saxon Cultural Province in Francia 2. The Monastic Landscape of the Anglo-Saxon Cultural Province in Francia 3. The Gun(t)za and Abirhilt Manuscripts: Women and their Books in the Anglo-Saxon Cultural Province in Francia Part II: Textual Analysis 4. "I am Crucified in Christ" (Galatians 2:20): The Kitzingen Crucifixion Miniature and Visions of the Apostle Paul 5. "We Interpret Spiritual Truths to People Possessed of the Spirit" (1 Cor. 2:13): Studying the Bible with the Fathers of the Church 6. "The Sensual Man does not Perceive those Things that are of the Spirit of God" (1 Cor. 2:14): History and Theology in the Stories of the Saints" 7. "An Eternal Weight of Glory" (2 Cor. 4: 17): Discipline and Devotion in Monastic Life Part III: Conclusions 8. "Now Concerning Virgins! I Have No Commandment of the Lord" (1 Cor. 7:25): Consecrated Women and Altar Service in the Anglo-Saxon Cultural Province in Francia 9. "Through a Glass Darkly" (1 Cor. 13:12): Textual Transmission and Historical Representation as Feminist Strategies in Early Medieval Europe Notes Bibliography: Manuscripts and Printed Materials Index ...