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Women as scribes and illustrators in the age of reform. The Basel connection

  • Anne Winston-Allen
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Raum und Medium
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Abstract

As a city strategically located at a major intersection on the Upper Rhine and at the epicenter of discussions on religious reform during the great Church Council of 1431-1448, Basel was a significant location for any implementation of a wider reform. Intimately involved in these efforts were the religious houses of the burgeoning Observant Reform Movement, especially women’s houses that received a mandate to copy books and to disseminate them to other cloisters. The present study considers not only the text manuscripts produced and transmitted but also female monastic bookillustrators’ participation and the reciprocal influences of non-professional artists in the Observant network of the Upper-Rhine region. The works produced in these Observant women’s convent scriptoria provide an important inside view of pre-Reformation Observant spirituality and of the women’s efforts to disseminate a literature of the reform.

Abstract

As a city strategically located at a major intersection on the Upper Rhine and at the epicenter of discussions on religious reform during the great Church Council of 1431-1448, Basel was a significant location for any implementation of a wider reform. Intimately involved in these efforts were the religious houses of the burgeoning Observant Reform Movement, especially women’s houses that received a mandate to copy books and to disseminate them to other cloisters. The present study considers not only the text manuscripts produced and transmitted but also female monastic bookillustrators’ participation and the reciprocal influences of non-professional artists in the Observant network of the Upper-Rhine region. The works produced in these Observant women’s convent scriptoria provide an important inside view of pre-Reformation Observant spirituality and of the women’s efforts to disseminate a literature of the reform.

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter 1
  2. Inhalt 7
  3. Vorwort 9
  4. Raum und Medium. Fragestellungen und Bausteine zu einer Literaturgeschichte Basels 13
  5. Basler Liederbücher? Lyrikhandschriften im Kontext der Basler Literaturszene 87
  6. Otto von Passau and the literary history of Basel in the later fourteenth century 107
  7. Konziliare, kuriale und städtische Reformen in den Basler Frauenklöstern und die Bedeutung von sozialen Räumen 153
  8. Women as scribes and illustrators in the age of reform. The Basel connection 177
  9. Margarethe von Savoyen in Basel 1445. Herrschaftsrepräsentation und ihre Medien im städtischen Kontext 201
  10. Die Rezeption der ›Melusine‹ vor dem Hintergrund persönlicher und medialer Verflechtungen 219
  11. Marquards von Stein ›Der Ritter vom Turn‹. Ein Produkt internationaler Kulturkontakte und literarischer Interessen zwischen adlig-höfischer Tradition, humanistischem Impetus und frühkapitalistischer Verlagspolitik 245
  12. Bibliotheca cartusiae Basiliensis. Die Bibliothek der Basler Kartause mit besonderem Fokus auf die Zeit unter Prior Heinrich Arnoldi (1449–1480) 287
  13. Der Basler Kartäuser Heinrich Arnoldi und seine an heilige Frauen gerichteten Meditationes et orationes. Mit einer Textausgabe der Katharina von Alexandrien und Odilia gewidmeten lateinischen Gebete 315
  14. Basilea aut Christianitatis centrum aut ei proxima est. Eine Gebrauchshandschrift erzählt Geschichten über Basel 373
  15. Die Basler Sammelausgaben von Sebastian Brants Dichtungen. Genese und Programmatik der ›Carmina in laudem beatae Mariae virginis‹ (1494) und der ›Varia carmina‹ (1498) 403
  16. Drucke(n) fürs Seelenheil. Johannes Amerbachs deutschsprachige Publikationen 443
  17. Schauspiel in der Stadt. Der ›Weltspiegel‹ des Valentin Boltz 459
  18. Ketzerstadt Basel. Das mittelalterliche Basel als Projektionsfläche des 19. Jahrhunderts 475
  19. Abkürzungsverzeichnis 493
  20. Register der Personen, Werke, Institutionen und Orte 495
  21. Handschriftenregister 515
  22. Abbildungsnachweise 521
  23. Abbildungen 523
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