Reading Women at the Margins of Quedlinburg Codex 74
Helene Scheck
This collection of essays, focused on the literacies nuns in medieval Europe, brings together specialists working diverse geographical areas to create a dialogue about Latin and vernacular texts read, wrote, exchanged, primarily northern Europe from eighth mid-sixteenth centuries. To date, there has been some significant research this field but little way cross-cultural study. Drawing especially rich body scholarship that currently exists books England, Germany, Low Countries, Sweden, these essays investigate meaning nuns’ terms reading writing, vernaculars. Contributors volume topic literacy palaeographical textual evidence by discussing information book ownership production convents. In first concentrated study examines comparative fashion pay close attention individual cultural complexities European Middle Ages.
Medieval women