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Female agency in manuscript cultures / edited by Eike Grossmann
Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Studies in manuscript cultures ; volume 39Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2024Description: 1 Online-Ressource (319 Seiten) : IllustrationenISBN:- 9783111382715
- 091.082
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Summary: Manuscript cultures have frequently forgotten, neglected, or even erased women's contributions from memory. Women's agency has also been a glaring blind spot in the scholarly pursuit of gender perspectives on the production of written artefacts. This volume addresses these lacunae by highlighting manuscripts and inscriptions by and for women, their active participation and enabling sponsorship, and their role in the circulation and dissemination of written artefacts. Seven papers present case studies from East Asian inscriptions to ancient cuneiform epigraphic, Egyptian graffiti from late antiquity to individual specimen and large-scale collections in medieval Europe, focusing on how women participated in and contributed to those. How did they assert their involvement, their claims and their aspirations? By what rationales and mechanisms were they excluded or their contribution marginalised? How did they react to structures that discriminated against them, eventually circumventing, subverting and transforming them? The present volume sheds light on new findings, gives unique insights and discusses methodological considerations in the budding field of women's manuscript studiesPPN: PPN: 1916230938Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Issues in the Study of Female Agency in Manuscript Cultures -- Patrons of Paper and Clay: Methods for Studying Women's Religiosity in Ancient Japan -- Inscribing Women at an Archaeological Site in China -- Cuneiform Manuscript Culture and Gender Studies -- Female Monastics and Devotees in Late Antique and Byzantine Egypt: Papyrological, Epigraphic and Archaeological Sources -- Materials, Methods, and Motives: Female Scribal Agency in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italian Religious Houses -- The Invisible Obvious: Women's Liturgy at Klosterneuburg -- Monastic Book Production in the Late Medieval Low Countries: The Sister Scribes of Jericho and the Building of their Manuscript Collection -- Contributors -- General Index.
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