Spiritual economies : female monasticism in later medieval England / Nancy Bradley Warren.
Spiritual economies : female monasticism in later medieval England / Nancy Bradley Warren.
Spiritual economies : female monasticism in later medieval England / Nancy Bradley Warren.
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Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2001.
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N271.90042/ 2
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English
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xi, 276 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Pt. I. Monastic Identities in Theory and Practice -- 1. Vows and Visitations: Textual Transactions and the Shaping of Monastic Identity -- 2. The Value of the Mother Tongue: Vernacular Translations of Monastic Rules for Women -- 3. Accounting for Themselves: Nuns' Everyday Practices and Alternative...
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Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2001.
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Pennsylvania
Date Published
c2001.
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"For Nancy Bradley Warten, the story of Dartford exemplifies the vibrancy of nuns' material and spiritual lives in later medieval England. Revising the long-held view that fourteenth- and fifteenth-century English nunneries were impoverished both financially and religiously, Warren clarifies that the women in female monastic communities like Dartfo...
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Spiritual economies : female monasticism in later medieval England / Nancy Bradley Warren.
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The Middle Ages series.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-258) and index.
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c2001.
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N271.90042/ 2
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74Vv8o5DPPBA
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ISBN
0812235835 (alk. paper)
9780812235838 (alk. paper)
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271.900420902
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991014273619702626
