Women's Monasticism and Medieval Society
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 medieval ecclesiastical history. To chart the expansion of nunneries in France and England during the central Middle Ages, he presents statistics and narratives to describe growth in broad historical contexts, with special attention to social an...
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 medieval ecclesiastical history. To chart the expansion of nunneries in France and England during the central Middle Ages, he presents statistics and narratives to describe growth in broad historical contexts, with special attention to social an...
