Veiled Women (2-Volume Set) : The Disappearance of Nuns from Anglo-Saxon England (Studies in Early Medieval Britain)

Foot, Sarah

Ashgate Pub Ltd（2000/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 2 vols. 534 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780754600510
• DDC分類 900

基本説明

"Studies in Early Medieval Britain" series. These books offer the first general and critical assessment of female religious communities in early medieval England.

Full 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.

Contents

Volume I - The Disappearance of Nuns from Anglo-Saxon EnglandEvidential and historiographical problems; Religious women in England before the first Viking Age; The disappearance of the early Anglo-Saxon nun; Women and the 10th-century monastic revolution; Widows and vowesses; A typology of congregations of women religious in later Anglo-Saxon England. Volume II - Female Religious Communities in England, 871-1066: Survey of female religious communities in England, 871-1066; Index of Anglo-Saxon charters.