Search Terms
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Use
“early medieval” OR “dark age”
“religious women” OR “monastic women”
“Germany”
Avoid
“nun” (too generic) AND “East Francia” (too specific)
Subject Headings
204 Religious experience, life, practice
207 Missions and religious education
274 History of Christianity in Europe
281 Early church and Eastern churches
943 Germany and central Europe
BR160-275 Christianity–History–By period–Early and medieval
BX895-939 Christian Denominations–Catholic Church–Study and teaching
BX940-1745 Christian Denominations–Catholic Church–History
BX2400-4563 Christian Denominations–Catholic Church–Monasticism. Religious orders
DD127-135 History of Germany–History–By period–Early and medieval to 1519–Medieval Empire, 481 - 1273–481-918. Merovingians. Carolingians
DD136-144 History of Germany–History–By period–Early and medieval to 1519–Medieval Empire, 481 - 1273–Houses of Saxony and Franconia
Author
Articles
Bateson, M. (1899). Origin and Early History of Double Monasteries. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 13, 137–198. https://doi.org/10.2307/3678130
Evitt, R. M. (2007). Incest Disguised: Ottonian Influence at Gandersheim and Hrotsvit’s “Abraham”. Comparative Drama, 41(3), 349–369.
McKitterick, R. (1992). Nuns' Scriptoria in England and Francia in the Eighth Century. Francia 19(1992): 1-35.
Nelson, J. L. (1990). Women and the Word in the Earlier Middle Ages. Studies in Church History, 27, 53-78. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0424208400012018
Watt, D. (2017). A Fragmentary Archive: Migratory Feelings in Early Anglo-Saxon Women’s Letters. Journal of Homosexuality 64(3). https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2016.1190217
Book Chapters
Gerchow, J., et al. (2008). Early Monasteries and Foundations (500–1200): an Introduction. In Hamburger, J. F., Marti, S., & Hamburger, D. (Eds.), Crown and Veil: Female Monasticism From the Fifth to the Fifteenth Centuries. Columbia University Press.
Hussey, M. T. (2023). A Road Nearly Taken: An Eighth-Century Manuscript in a Woman’s Hand and Franco-Saxon Nuns in Early Medieval English Intellectual History. In R. Norris, R. Stephenson, & R. R. Trilling (Eds.), Feminist Approaches to Early Medieval English Studies. Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv32dnb90.16
Jäggi, C. & Lobbedey, U. (2008). Church and Cloister: The Architecture of Female Monasticism in the Middle Ages. In Hamburger, J. F., Marti, S., & Hamburger, D. (Eds.), Crown and Veil: Female Monasticism From the Fifth to the Fifteenth Centuries. Columbia University Press.
Muschiol, G. (2008). Time and Space: Liturgy and Rite in Female Monasteries of the Middle Ages. In Hamburger, J. F., Marti, S., & Hamburger, D. (Eds.), Crown and Veil: Female Monasticism From the Fifth to the Fifteenth Centuries. Columbia University Press.
Scheck, H. (2024) [Forthcoming]. A Reconsideration of Female Scribal Activity: Locating the Home of the ab-Scriptorium. In P. Stoop & V. Blanton (Eds.), Engaging Medieval Women Religious: Studies in Honour of Veronica O’Mara. Brepols.
Schulenburg, J. T. (2009). Holy Women And The Needle Arts: Piety, Devotion, And Stitching The Sacred, Ca. 500–1150. In S. Wells & K. Smith (Eds.), Negotiating Community and Difference in Medieval Europe: Gender, Power, Patronage and the Authority of Religion in Latin Christendom. Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004171251.i-300.22
Wells, S. (2009). The Politics of Gender and Ethnicity in East Francia: The Case of Gandersheim, CA. 850–950. In S. Wells & K. Smith (Eds.), Negotiating Community and Difference in Medieval Europe: Gender, Power, Patronage and the Authority of Religion in Latin Christendom. Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004171251.i-300.26
Books
Cyrus, C. J. (2009). The Scribes for Women’s Convents in Late Medieval Germany. University of Toronto Press. https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442689084
Eckenstein, L. (1896). Woman under Monasticism: Chapters on Saint-Lore and Convent Life between A.D. 500 and A.D. 1500. Cambridge University Press.
Lifshitz, F. (2014). Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia: A Study of Manuscript Transmission and Monastic Culture. Fordham University Press.
Scheck, H. (2008). Reform and Resistance: Formations of Female Subjectivity in Early Medieval Ecclesiastical Culture. State University of New York Press.
Conferences
Nash, P. (2014). Woman and Power: Thoughts Arising out of the Roundtable "Debating Women and Power in the Middle Ages" [Conference presentation]. International Medieval Congress, Leeds. https://doi.org/10.17077/1536-8742.2043
Dissertations
Bogue S. V. (2016). Hrotsvit's legends as redemptive pedagogy: The "nectar of heavenly grace" (Order No. 10588921) [Doctoral Dissertation, Emory University]. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.
Greer, S. L. (2017). Gandersheim and Quedlinburg, c 852-1024: The Development of Royal Female Monasteries in Saxony (Order No. 10595562) [Doctoral Dissertation, University of St. Andrews]. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.
Sutor, S. A. (2012). “When Female Weakness Triumphs”: Shadow Feminism in the Early Middle Ages (Order No. 1509296) [Master’s Dissertation, Georgetown University]. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.