Women''s Monasticism and Medieval Society: Nunneries in France and England, 890–1215
ISBN: 9781501717246
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Convents -- Europe -- History; Monasticism and religious orders for women -- History -- Middle Ages 600–1500;

In this engaging work, Bruce L. Venarde uncovers a largely unknown story of women's religious lives and puts female monasticism back in the mainstream of medieval ecclesiastical history. To chart the expansion of nunneries in France and England during...


Bruce L. Venarde is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh.

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