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

Summary

This first part of a two-volume set offers a critical assessment of female religious communities in early medieval England. It includes sections on religious women in England before the first Viking age and women and the 10th-century monastic revolution.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Foot
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.06.2000
• EAN: 9780754600435
• ISBN: 978-0-7546-0043-5
• No. of pages: 248
• Weight: 620 g
• Series: Studies in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; England, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Monasticism, Christianity, History of Religion, Church history, c 500 to c 1000 CE, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, Religious communities and monasticism, Religious communities & monasticism, Christian communities & monasticism