Abbess

Westenburg - Monk and the Abbess

Westenburg - Monk and the Abbess

Nuns on the Run (engl.)

Equal in Monastic Profession - Religious Women in Medieval France

In this study of the subordinate attitudes of secular women.. In the words of one abbess comparing nuns with monks, they were different as to their sex but equal in their monastic profession. A fascinating look at the world of medieval monastic documents with a quantitative analysis

Hildegard of Bingen - A Visionary Life

.Drawing on contemporary sources, the text unfolds Hildegards life from the time of her entrance into an anchoresss cell-where a woman would remain in pious isolation-to her death as a famed visionary and writer, abbess and confidante of popes and kings, more than seventy years later. Against this background the author explores Hildegards vast creative work, encompassing theology, medicine, natural history, poetry, and

Etheldreda

Occasionally an uneasy peace was bought by the skilful use of the Germanic tribes warred against each other and against the native Celts.But this is not just the story of a seventh-century Anglo-Saxon saint.This edition also

The Rose of the World - Hawkenlye Series, Book 13

A year ago, King John was excommunicated - and soon all that they hold dear is threatened . Meanwhile, Helewise has moved into Hawkenlye Manor with Josse, and their lives are full of family and warmth

Sister of Wisdom - St. Hildegards Theology of the Feminine with a New Preface, Bibliography, and Discography

Barbara Newman reintroduces English-speaking readers to an extraordinary and gifted figure of the twelfth-century renaissance. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was mystic and writer, musician and preacher, abbess and scientist who used symbolic theology to explore the meaning of her gender within the divine scheme of