Gender and Literacy: the participation of women in book culture in England and Francia, c.650 - c.950

该项目将探讨妇女参与书籍生产和消费的情况，中世纪早期英格兰和法兰克的识字网络促进和维持了这一情况。在以前的奖学金的基础上，它旨在通过探索强大的女王和女修道院院长如何影响文学作品来追求他们的战略和目标，以及他们成功的程度，来推动我们认为我们对性别角色和女性机构的了解。通过分析提供女性参与书籍文化证据的文本，包括信件、遗嘱和圣徒传记，以及研究女性创作和使用的现存手稿，该项目将探索女性作为赞助人、抄写员、作者、所有者所扮演的不同角色。书籍的保管人。它的目的是分析如何以及在何种程度上，妇女参与图书文化的变化之间的650和950，确定和探索任何明显的地理差异。它还将调查妇女的参与可以揭示图书生产本身的网络的性质，同时探索妇女在这些网络中扮演的角色，更广泛地揭示了中世纪早期社会中的性别角色和妇女机构。将性别置于其分析的核心，这项研究旨在促进女权主义奖学金，主张不仅妇女的生活经验的重要性，中世纪早期社会的研究，而且性别建设的意义。这项研究将是第一个进行持续分析的妇女和书籍文化在英格兰和法兰西从第七中期到第十中期世纪。因此，它将在探索时间和地理变化和差异方面处于独特的地位，为教育，识字和图书生产网络的研究做出原创性贡献，并更广泛地增强对中世纪早期文化的理解。

This project will explore women's participation in the production and consumption of books, facilitated and sustained by literate networks in early medieval England and Francia. Building upon previous scholarship, it seeks to push the boundaries of what we think we know about gender roles and women's agency by exploring how powerful queens and abbesses influenced literary output in pursuit of their strategies and aims, and the extent to which they were successful. Through analysis of texts which provide evidence of women's involvement in book culture, including letters, wills and hagiographies, and the study of extant manuscripts created and used by women, this project will explore the varied roles women played as patrons, scribes, authors, owners and custodians of books. It aims to analyse how and the extent to which women's participation in book culture changed between 650 and 950, identifying and exploring any discernible geographical differences. It will also investigate what women's involvement can reveal about the nature of the networks of book production themselves, alongside exploring what the roles women played within these networks suggest about gender roles and women's agency in early medieval society more widely. Placing gender at the heart of its analysis, this research seeks to contribute to feminist scholarship, asserting not only the importance of women's lived experiences to the study of early medieval societies, but also the significance of constructions of gender. This study will be the first to conduct a sustained analysis of women and book culture in both England and Francia from the mid-seventh to the mid-tenth century. Thus, it will be in a unique position to explore both temporal and geographic change and differences, making an original contribution to the study of education, literacy and the networks of book production, and enhancing understandings of early medieval culture more widely.