List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
1. Women in/and Early Ecclesiastical Culture:
An Overview
2. The Limits of Orthodoxy: Being Female and
Female Being under Charlemagne
3. Soul Searching: Alcuin of York and His
Circle of Female Scholars
4. Redressing the Female Subject: Women, Transvestite
Saints, and the Anglo-Saxon Benedictine Reform
5. Resounding Silences: Mary and Eve in
Anglo-Saxon Reform Literature
6. Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: Claiming Her Voice
7. Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: Recasting Female
Subjectivities
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index