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Book Synopsis"Writing a book about one of the most complex books ever assembled is no easy task, yet Griffiths rises to the occasion... This work will be widely and warmly received by medievalists everywhere."-Jeffrey Hamburger, Harvard University
Trade Review"Writing a book about one of the most complex books ever assembled is no easy task, yet Griffiths rises to the occasion. . . . In her treatment of the manuscript, and more important, its maker, a forceful new picture of twelfth-century female monasticism emerges, one that is far less passive than that to which we have allowed ourselves to become accustomed. This work will be widely and warmly received by medievalists everywhere." * Jeffrey Hamburger, Harvard University *
"This is scholarship of a very high order. Griffiths's research is exhaustive, her knowledge of the twelfth century broad and deep. She has left no stone unturned in her quest to understand the
Hortus, along with its 'mastermind' and the community that produced it, and to restore this work to its rightful place in the history of women's education." * Barbara Newman, Northwestern University *
"An important book, well reasoned and clearly reasoned." *
Religious Studies Review *
"As thorough as it is revelatory. . . . Essential reading on the theological, intellectual, and artistic life of the nun in the Middle Ages." *
CAA Reviews *
