Gold of pleasure : a novel of Christina of Markyate /
Mohrman, Ruth,author.
"Christina of Markyate was a gifted twelfth-century English woman, whose visions brought her local fame and who once owned the renowned St Albans Psalter. As a young girl she refused the sexual advances of the Bishop of Durham and ran away from home rather than consummate a forced marriage. Christina was hidden for years by rural hermits, developed a passionate attachment for one of her rescuers, and finally achieved the religious life she had always wanted, as a Prioress. The Abbot of St Albans came to rely on her spiritual gifts and commissioned a biography of her, but was she the saint he thought her to be?"--Back cover.
"Christina of Markyate was a gifted twelfth-century English woman, whose visions brought her local fame and who once owned the renowned St Albans Psalter. As a young girl she refused the sexual advances of the Bishop of Durham and ran away from home rather than consummate a forced marriage. Christina was hidden for years by rural hermits, developed a passionate attachment for one of her rescuers, and finally achieved the religious life she had always wanted, as a Prioress. The Abbot of St Albans came to rely on her spiritual gifts and commissioned a biography of her, but was she the saint he thought her to be?"--Back cover.
Christina, of Markyate, Saint, approximately 1096-approximately 1155.