Women in Western Intellectual Culture, 600-1500
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: December 6, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781403961396
Subjects: Social history; Women's studies; c 500 CE to c 1000 CE; Women; Medieval; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; History: World; Western Continental Europe; Women intellectuals; Western Europe - General; Women's Studies - General; History-Medieval; History-Western Europe - General; Social Science / Women's Studies; Intellectual life; History
First sentence: In the magisterial work, Thought and Letters in Western Europe A.D. 500 to 900, historian M. L. W. Laistner reviews the intellectual contributions made during that period according to the following categories: classical grammatica, history and biography, hagiography, geography, dogmatic theology, scriptural exegesis, pastoral theology, political ideas, philosophy, Latin and vernacular poetry, and prose.
Description: "Western intellectual tradition has long been viewed as an exclusive male bastion, but Women in Western Intellectual Culture, 600-1500 proves that this thesis is no longer tenable. By identifying and analyzing the intellectual writings and activities of women throughout the centuries this study, the first of two volumes, documents a level of participation in intellectual matters that will surprise many readers. The quality and quantity of these contributions will persuade even the skeptic that women's voices deserve more attention in intellectual history."--GoogleBooks.