As a monument of female authorship the Hortus deliciarum seems to be particularly suitable for Griffiths’s project of reevaluation. According to her, monastic women’s active engagement both in the intellectual developments and in the reform movement during the period have not been sufficiently appreciated. 9) of renaissance and reform in the twelfth century. Griffiths’s examination of the Hortus deliciarum aims at “a new reading” (p. Today, the illuminated and glossed manuscript that was destroyed by fire in 1870 can be reconstructed only from tracings from the original. Odile) in Alsace in the late-twelfth century, created one of the most complex medieval teaching books-a work that provided instruction on faith, theology, biblical history, ecclesiastical matters, canon law, and nature through words, images, and music. By compiling the Hortus deliciarum, Herrad of Landsberg, abbess of the Augustinian community of Hohenbourg (Ste.
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