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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Nunneries"”.
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The Royal Nunneries in the Landscape of Anglo-Saxon Wessex 871–1066
… the Anglo-Saxon landscape of the six royal nunneries of Wessex, from the reign of King Alfred to the Norman Conquest. By examining the nunneries within their changing physical, political and ecclesiastical settings, it attempts to assess the extent to which the nunneries were inward-looking, …
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In Savonarola's Shadow: Art, Agency, and Reform in the Dominican Nunneries of Central Italy
… a network of interconnected Italian Dominican nunneries closely linked to the convents of San Marco in Florence and San Domenico in Pisa, with particular attention to Corpus Christi and Santi Giacomo e Filippo in Genoa, Santa Caterina da Siena in Florence, San Vincenzo in Prato, and San …
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An archaeology of female monasticism in medieval Ireland
… material from elsewhere has been considered. Nunneries should not be expected to conform to what has become the male monastic template of a claustrally-planned monastery. The research conducted shows a distinct and varied archaeology and architecture for medieval nunneries in Ireland which …
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Chaucer's Prioress
… milieu. The exhaustive study, Medieval English Nunneries by Power, supported by historical evidence, indicates medieval prioresses generally were strong and pious though worldly. Power feels there is no reason to believe Chaucer's Prioress departed from that norm. One returns to Chaucer's poetic …