Manuscripts and monastic culture : reform and renewal in twelfth-century Germany /
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| Imprint: | Turnhout : Brepols ; Abingdon : Marston [distributor], 2007. |
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| Description: | xiv, 347 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Medieval church studies ; 13 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6286646 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- The Place of Germany in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance
- Part I. Seeing, Hearing, Believing
- Art, Exegesis, and Affective Piety in Twelfth-Century German Manuscripts
- Speaking of Spiritual Matters: Visions and the Rhetoric of Reform in the Liber visionum of Otloh of St Emmeram
- Illustrations in the Manuscripts of the Admont Nuns from the Second Half of the Twelfth Century: Reflections on Their Function
- Part II. Preaching, Eduction, and Reform
- The Multiform Grace of the Holy Spirit: Salvation History and the Book of Ruth at Twelfth-Century Admont
- Women's Reading and Monastic Reform in Twelfth-Century Germany: The Library of the Nuns of Lippoldberg
- Christ's Educated Brides: Literacy, Spirituality, and Gender in Twelfth-Century Admont
- Part III. Changing Intellectual Landscapes
- Scholastic Theology in a Monastic Milieu in the Twelfth Century: The Case of Admont
- Diligens scrutator sacri eloquii: An Introduction to Scriptural Exegesis by Hugh of St Victor Preserved at Admont Library (MS 672)
- Bernard of Clairvaux's Sermones Super Cantica Canticorum in Twelfth-Century Austria
- Bibliography
- Index
- List of Contributors