Hidden Lives: the Nuns of Shaftesbury Abbey by William Smith

Hidden Lives: the Nuns of Shaftesbury Abbey

William Smith

160 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction biography historical history religion emotional slow-paced
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Founded by King Alfred the Great in or around 888, the Benedictine Abbey of St Mary and St Edward at Shaftesbury was the wealthiest and most important nunnery of its order in England until its suppression by Henry VIII in 1539. Continuing the elit...

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