In this engaging work, Bruce L. Venarde uncovers a largely unknown story of women's religious lives and puts female monasticism back in the mainstream of mediev

In this engaging work, Bruce L. Venarde uncovers a largely unknown story of women's religious lives and puts female monasticism back in the mainstream of mediev

A selection of documents, translated primarily from medieval Latin but occasionally from Old French, that shows how religious women and their patrons managed re

In this study of the manner in which medieval nuns lived, Penelope Johnson challenges facile stereotypes of nuns living passively under monastic rule, finding i

There has long been a tendency among monastic historians to ignore or marginalize female participation in monastic life, but recent scholarship has begun to red