I. The Index
is a database in progress that currently contains descriptions of 146 manuscripts illuminated by artists in medieval women’s scriptoria. While many more works have been identified that might be included, only those have been listed that can satisfy at least four of the tentative criteria established as characteristic of books made in women’s convent scriptoria. More will be added as research continues.
► Sponsored by AGFEM: Arbeitsgruppe geistliche Frauengemeinschaften im europäischen Mittelalter (Working Group on Women Religious in the European Middle Ages), the index was founded to establish a clearinghouse for information about manuscripts made in women’s religious communities. With the support of a German-American Trans-Coop Grant generously funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and matched by funds from the College of William and Mary, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, and the University of Minnesota (Morris), the AGFEM Project has funded workshops and established a website for the sharing of information about ongoing research on women’s religious communities of the European Middle Ages. The web-site welcomes corrections and invites contributions of information on manuscripts that can be included in the index (along with the names of contributors.)
► Because the Trans-Coop Grant has been sponsored cooperatively by universities in both the Bundesrepublik and the United States, information in the index is presented in a dual-language (German and English) format. Many thanks for the support of the project are due to AGFEM and sponsors of the Trans-Coop Grant, Professors Sigrid Schmitt (Universität Trier), Gisela Muschiol (Universität Bonn), Alison Beach (Universität Köln). Anne Winston-Allen
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
is a database in progress that currently contains descriptions of 146 manuscripts illuminated by artists in medieval women’s scriptoria. While many more works have been identified that might be included, only those have been listed that can satisfy at least four of the tentative criteria established as characteristic of books made in women’s convent scriptoria. More will be added as research continues.
► Sponsored by AGFEM: Arbeitsgruppe geistliche Frauengemeinschaften im europäischen Mittelalter (Working Group on Women Religious in the European Middle Ages), the index was founded to establish a clearinghouse for information about manuscripts made in women’s religious communities. With the support of a German-American Trans-Coop Grant generously funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and matched by funds from the College of William and Mary, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, and the University of Minnesota (Morris), the AGFEM Project has funded workshops and established a website for the sharing of information about ongoing research on women’s religious communities of the European Middle Ages. The web-site welcomes corrections and invites contributions of information on manuscripts that can be included in the index (along with the names of contributors.)
► Because the Trans-Coop Grant has been sponsored cooperatively by universities in both the Bundesrepublik and the United States, information in the index is presented in a dual-language (German and English) format. Many thanks for the support of the project are due to AGFEM and sponsors of the Trans-Coop Grant, Professors Sigrid Schmitt (Universität Trier), Gisela Muschiol (Universität Bonn), Alison Beach (Universität Köln). Anne Winston-Allen
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
