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

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

Studies in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland

Sarah Foot

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nonfiction history religion
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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 ...

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