Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia: A Study of Manuscript Transmission and Monastic Culture

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This study of the intellectual culture of the women`s monasteries of the Main Valley during the eighth century, based on analysis of the manuscripts produced and used by women religious, argues that the content of the women`s books was overwhelmingly gender-egalitarian and frequently feminist (that is, resistant to patriarchal ideas).

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