Female Agency in Manuscript Cultures

book: Female Agency in Manuscript Cultures

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2024

Female Agency in Manuscript Cultures

Edited by: Eike Grossmann

Volume 39 in the series Studies in Manuscript Cultures

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111382715

Overview
Contents

About this book

Open Access

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 studies.

Author / Editor information

Eike Grossmann, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction: Issues in the Study of Female Agency in Manuscript Cultures Eike Grossmann Open Access Download PDF	1
Patrons of Paper and Clay: Methods for Studying Women’s Religiosity in Ancient Japan Bryan D. Lowe Open Access Download PDF	19
Inscribing Women at an Archaeological Site in China Wendi L. Adamek Open Access Download PDF	65
Cuneiform Manuscript Culture and Gender Studies Cécile Michel Open Access Download PDF	103
Female Monastics and Devotees in Late Antique and Byzantine Egypt: Papyrological, Epigraphic and Archaeological Sources Leah Mascia Open Access Download PDF	129
Materials, Methods, and Motives: Female Scribal Agency in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italian Religious Houses Melissa Moreton Open Access Download PDF	171
The Invisible Obvious: Women’s Liturgy at Klosterneuburg Michael L. Norton Open Access Download PDF	209
Monastic Book Production in the Late Medieval Low Countries: The Sister Scribes of Jericho and the Building of their Manuscript Collection Patricia Stoop Open Access Download PDF	267
Contributors Open Access Download PDF	307
General Index Open Access Download PDF	309

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Students and scholars of gender and manuscript studies, Japanese, Chinese and Islamic studies, Assyriology, medieval history
Pages
- Front matter: 5
- Main content: 319
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 16
- Coloured Illustrations: 71
- Tables: 5
Keywords: Gender studies; epigraphy; written artefacts; manuscript studies

eBook

Published: June 17, 2024
ISBN: 9783111382715

Hardcover

Published: June 17, 2024
ISBN: 9783111382340