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Women's Monasticism and Medieval Society: Nunneries in France and England, 890-1215.(Review)
By Bruce L. Venarde. Pp. xix+ 543 incl. frontispiece, 9 figs and 7 tables. Ithaca-London: Cornell University Press, 1997. [pounds]33.50. 0 8014 3203 0
Contrary to the popular view that the status of religious women declined markedly before 1100, Bruce Venarde argues that the fortunes of female religious prospered in a wave of rapid expansion of monastic foundations from the 1080s to the 1160s. In this book he provides a useful comparison of the foundations of French and English nunneries, 890-1215, in two English archdioceses (York and Canterbury), eleven French archdioceses (Aix-en-Provence, Aries, Auch, Bordeaux, Bourges, Lyon, Narbonne, Reims, Rouen, Sens and …
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