Nunneries and the Anglo-Saxon Royal Houses : Women, Power and Politics - Barbara Yorke

Nunneries and the Anglo-Saxon Royal Houses

By: Barbara Yorke

Hardcover | 1 May 2003 | Edition Number 1

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Nunneries and the Anglo-Saxon Royal Houses is the first book to examine in detail a distinctive group of female religious communities which were founded by royal families in Anglo-Saxon England. It shows that the fortunes of the nunneries were inextricably linked with those of the royal families that were their patrons and explores how they often had to reconcile potentially conflicting demands from the secular and ecclesiastical worlds.
The book also looks at the opportunities the nunneries provided for royal women to exercise the types of public power and authority that in the early middle ages were often the preserve of men. Within the royal family nexus entry into the church was a gendered role performed by its women and an option that was not generally available to royal males. As a result some remarkable women were able both to run major religious houses and to intervene in contemporary family politics.
All too often their roles in church and state have been underplayed in conventional ecclesiastical and political histories and this book hopes to restore some of the respect that these powerful women undoubtedly enjoyed in their own lifetimes.

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