Dark age bodies : gender and monastic practice in the early medieval West / Lynda L. Coon.

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2011], ©2011.

xi, 390 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-373) and index.

"Hrabanus is my name" -- A Carolingian aesthetic of bricolage -- Gendering the Benedictine rule -- Carolingian practices of the rule -- Inscribing the rule onto Carolingian sacred space -- Gendering the plan of Saint Gall -- Foursquare power.