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Title Guidance for women in twelfth-century convents / [edited and] translated by Vera Morton ; with an interpretive essay by Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
Published Cambridge : D.S. Brewer, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (203 pages)
Series Library of medieval women, 1369-9652
Library of medieval women. 1369-9652
Contents Frontcover; Contents ; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Medieval letters on virginity and chastity; Convents and women's lives; Women's languages and learning; The present volume; Note on Texts and the Translations; I Osbert of Clare, Prior of Westminster, to Adelidis, Abbess of Barking; II Abelard to Heloise; III Peter the Venerable to his Nieces Margaret and Pontia; IV Osbert of Clare to his Nieces Margaret and Cecilia in Barking Abbey; V Abelard to Heloise; VI Goscelin of St Bertin; Interpretive Essay; Bibliography; Index; Backcover
Summary Collection of letters and texts offering guidance for nuns, and including selections from Abelard's letters to Heloise
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-187) and indexes
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Subject Monastic and religious life of women -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 -- Sources
Virginity -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 -- Sources
Chastity -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 -- Sources
RELIGION -- Christian Life -- General.
Monastic and religious life of women -- Middle Ages
Genre/Form History
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Form Electronic book
Author Morton, Vera Petch, 1923-
ISBN 9781846150845
1846150841