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Women in the Medieval Monastic World
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Janet Burton
Categories: Monastic and religious life of women
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher:

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There has long been a tendency among monastic historians to ignore or marginalize female participation in monastic life, but recent scholarship has begun to red
Equal in Monastic Profession
Language: en
Pages: 310
Authors: Penelope D. Johnson
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-05-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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In this study of the manner in which medieval nuns lived, Penelope Johnson challenges facile stereotypes of nuns living passively under monastic rule, finding i
Women and Monasticism in Medieval Europe
Language: en
Pages: 147
Authors: Constance H Berman
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-09-01 - Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

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A selection of documents, translated primarily from medieval Latin but occasionally from Old French, that shows how religious women and their patrons managed re
Nuns' Priests' Tales
Language: en
Pages: 360
Authors: Fiona J. Griffiths
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-20 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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List of Abbreviations -- Prologue -- The puzzle of the nuns' priest --Biblical models : women and men in the apostolic life -- Jerome and the noble women of Rom
Monastic Life in the Medieval British Isles
Language: en
Pages: 274
Authors: Julie Kerr
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-15 - Publisher: University of Wales Press

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This book celebrates the work and contribution of Professor Janet Burton to medieval monastic studies in Britain. Burton has fundamentally changed approaches to