As Anthony Grafton and Lisa Jardine note , initiation into the more subtle modes of literary language served the interests of those " new elites " who saw the need to build , strengthen , and limit access to their own power - base .
56-78 ; cf. also I. Schneider , Gelehrte Frauen des 5./11 . bis 7./13 . Jh.s nach dem biographischen Werk des Dahabî ( st . 748/1347 ) , in : Vermeulen / de Smet , Philosophy and Arts ( see above note 46 ) , p . 107-121 .
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