A Small Sound of the Trumpet: Women in Medieval LifeDescribes the daily life of noblewomen, nuns, and peasants in feudal England and Europe, looks at the treatment of lepers, beggars, prostitutes, and criminals, and offers brief profiles of prominent medieval women. |
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Page 99
... nunnery with many farms and much livestock the position really required an efficient executive , but advice to nuns ... nunneries was restricted to the upper class and in England , for example , the average number of religious in each ...
... nunnery with many farms and much livestock the position really required an efficient executive , but advice to nuns ... nunneries was restricted to the upper class and in England , for example , the average number of religious in each ...
Page 100
... nunneries , looking for suitable places to bestow superfluous daughters , for as founders they could specify this ... nunnery at an early age , received more or less education depending on the quality of the house , and ultimately ...
... nunneries , looking for suitable places to bestow superfluous daughters , for as founders they could specify this ... nunnery at an early age , received more or less education depending on the quality of the house , and ultimately ...
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... nunneries following the Cistercian rule continued to proliferate . Occasionally they were very grand indeed , such as ... nunnery in the thirteenth century in England . Countess Ela of Salisbury is a remarkable example Women who Prayed ...
... nunneries following the Cistercian rule continued to proliferate . Occasionally they were very grand indeed , such as ... nunnery in the thirteenth century in England . Countess Ela of Salisbury is a remarkable example Women who Prayed ...
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abbess abbey abbot Abelard active Agnes Alice became beguines bishop Blanche Blanche of Castile British Library brother castle Cathars childbirth Christine de Pizan church Cistercian Clare clerical convent countess court crusade daughter death Dhuoda died early ecclesiastical Edward Eleanor Eleanor of Aquitaine Elizabeth emphasis encouraged England English female fifteenth century fourteenth century France French girls heir Héloïse Henry Hildegard Hildegard of Bingen hospital Hôtel-Dieu household husband important influence insisted Isabella Jeanne king king's lands later lepers lives livres Lollard London Louis Mahaut male manor Margery Margery Kempe Marguerite Marie marriage married medicine medieval medieval women Middle Ages mother mystics noble ladies nunnery nuns occasionally officials Paris peasant piety practical prioress prostitutes queen Radegund recluse recognised religious responsibility rich royal rule secular servants sick sisters social suggests thirteenth century trade trans treatise twelfth century widow wife wives woman wrote young