Nuns' literacies in medieval Europe
Subtitle: the Hull dialogue
By: edited by Virginia Blanton, Veronica O'Mara and Patricia Stoop
Series: Medieval women: texts and contexts -- volume 26; Medieval women--texts and contexts -- 26.
Publisher: Brepols
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Turnhout
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9782503539720
Subjects: Nuns; Books and reading; History; Monastic and religious life of women; Nuns as authors; Nuns' writings; History and criticism; Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern); Literacy; Christianity; Nonne; Schriftlichkeit; Lektüre; Bildung
Description: "This collection of essays...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 form the eighth to the mid-sixteenth centuries....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."--Back cover.
Notes: Based on a conference held at the University of Hull, June 20-23, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-348) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Literacy and nuns : finding and interpreting the evidence; title: Language and literacy : Latin and the vernacular; title: Literate nuns : reading and writing in the convent; title: Authorship and nuns : writing by the nun for the nun.