Reform and resistance
Subtitle: formations of female subjectivity in early medieval ecclesiastical culture
By: Helene Scheck.
Series: Suny series in medieval studies -- 241
Publisher: State University of New York Press; SUNY Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780791474839
Subjects: Hrotsvitha, -- ca. 935-ca. 975 -- Criticism and interpretation; Alcuin, -- 735-804 -- Criticism and interpretation; English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism; Christian literature, English (Middle) -- History and criticism; Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- History and criticism; Women in Christianity -- Germany -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500; Christianity and literature -- Germany -- History -- To 1500; Germany -- Church history -- To 843; Germany -- Church history -- 843-1517
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Women in and early ecclesiastical culture: an overview; title: The limits of orthodoxy: being female and female being under Charlemagne; title: Soul searching: Alcuin of York and his circle of female scholars; title: Redressing the female subject: women, transvestite saints, and the Anglo-Saxon Benedictine reform; title: Resounding silences: Mary and Eve in Anglo-Saxon reform literature; title: Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: claiming her voice; title: Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: recasting female subjectivities.