Veiled Women : Volume I: The Disappearance of Nuns from Anglo-Saxon England - Sarah Foot

Veiled Women

Volume I: The Disappearance of Nuns from Anglo-Saxon England

By: Sarah Foot

Hardcover | 21 June 2000

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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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'...a scholarly work, based on detailed research...This is an important book.' English Historical Review, June 2001 'Sarah Foot has made an important contribution to the study of Anglo-Saxon religious women... an invaluable aid to further research.' Journal of Ecclesiastical History '... thorough, thoughtful, and (...) highly original... specialists will (...) be grateful to Foot for both her meticulous assembly of evidence and her fascinating conclusions and conjectures.' Speculum '... a very important contribution to the debate about the development of the religious life for women...' Year's Work in English Studies 'The book's copious footnotes and thirty-two page bibliography offer much to scholar and student... As a work of scholarship (...) Foot's accomplishment is significant... Scholars and students will find much to explore, engage, and evaluate...' ABR

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