Title: Women's Monasticism and Medieval Society
First published: 1997
Description: In this innovative and engaging work, Bruce L. Venarde uncovers a largely unknown story of women's religious lives and puts female monasticism in the mainstream of medieval ecclesiastical history. Venarde deftly interweaves narrative and statistical data to describe in broad historical context the multiplication of French and English nunneries during the central Middle Ages.
Subjects: Convents, Monasticism and religious orders for women, History, Nuns, Women, history, middle ages, 500-1500, Women, religious life, Monastic and religious life of women, Asceticism
Places: Europe
Time periods: Middle Ages, 600-1500
LC classification: BX4220.E85 V46 1997