Beach, Alison I.

Women as scribes : book production and monastic reform in twelfth-century Bavaria / Alison I. Beach. - Cambridge, U. K. : Cambridge University Press, 2004 - 198 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. - Cambridge studies in palaeography and codicology ; 10 .

Originally presented as author's thesis (doctoral)--Columbia University

Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-191) and index

0521792436 (hbk.) RM328.32


Wessobrunn (Monastery)--History--To 1500
Stift Admont--History--To 1500
Schaftlarn (Monastery : Schaftlarn, Germany)--History--To 1500


Scriptoria--History--Germany--Bavaria--To 1500
Scribes--History--Germany--Bavaria--To 1500
Women in Christianity--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500
Books--History--Germany--400-1400
Manuscripts, Medieval--History--Germany--Bavaria
Monasticism and religious orders--History--Germany--Bavaria--To 1500
Civilization, Medieval--12th century