Female Monastics and Devotees in Late Antique and Byzantine Egypt: Papyrological, Epigraphic and Archaeological Sources

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction: Issues in the Study of Female Agency in Manuscript Cultures 1
4. Patrons of Paper and Clay: Methods for Studying Women’s Religiosity in Ancient Japan 19
5. Inscribing Women at an Archaeological Site in China 65
6. Cuneiform Manuscript Culture and Gender Studies 103
7. Female Monastics and Devotees in Late Antique and Byzantine Egypt: Papyrological, Epigraphic and Archaeological Sources 129
8. Materials, Methods, and Motives: Female Scribal Agency in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italian Religious Houses 171
9. The Invisible Obvious: Women’s Liturgy at Klosterneuburg 209
10. Monastic Book Production in the Late Medieval Low Countries: The Sister Scribes of Jericho and the Building of their Manuscript Collection 267
11. Contributors 307
12. General Index 309