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- Title
The Royal Prayerbook's blood‐staunching charms and early Insular scribal communities.
- Authors
Kesling, Emily
- Abstract
The Royal Prayerbook contains a variety of entries aimed at staunching a flow of blood, three of which are related by a shared poetic motif. An examination of the elements in these texts suggests that all three are a meditation on a scene from the gospels, the healing of the woman with the issue of blood. This article argues these texts were compiled in a learned milieu, probably within a female or double monastic house; from an Insular centre, they moved to the Continent, perhaps as a consequence of the involvement of women in the mission movement.
- Subjects
PRAYER books; DEVOTIONS; PRAYERS; BLOOD flow; WOMEN in missionary work
- Publication
Early Medieval Europe, 2021, Vol 29, Issue 2, p181
- ISSN
0963-9462
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/emed.12474