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Veiled Women, Volume II: Female Religious Communities in England, 871–1066

By Sarah Foot

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2000
ISBN
0754600440, 9780754600442
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7218484 bytes)
Series
Studies in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland; 2
Edition
1
Pages
288\290
Time added
2023-06-06 08:58:04

Description

There is no published account of the history of religious women in England before the Norman Conquest. Yet, female saints and abbesses, such as Hild of Whitby or Edith of Wilton, are among the most celebrated women recorded in Anglo-Saxon sources and their stories are of popular interest. This book offers the first general and critical assessment of female religious communities in early medieval England. It transforms our understanding of the different modes of religious vocation and institutional provision and thereby gives early medieval women’s history a new foundation.

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