Ordering Women’s Lives: Penitentials and Nunnery Rules in the Early Medieval West 1859282385, 9781859282380

This book takes an innovative approach to the study of the penitentials and nunnery rules and the ways in which these te

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Ordering Women’s Lives: Penitentials and Nunnery Rules in the Early Medieval West
1859282385, 9781859282380

This book is an early medieval social history based on the early penitentials, with up-to-date translations of these oft

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An exploration of life in the early medieval West, using pigs as a lens to investigate agriculture, ecology, economy, an

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An exploration of life in the early medieval West, using pigs as a lens to investigate agriculture, ecology, economy, an

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Western expansion in North America has mainly been described as either a linear sequence energized by nineteenth-century

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The essays in this volume attempt to re-evaluate, understand and explain various aspects of Jewish history within the br

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One of the significant developments in scholarship in the latter half of the twentieth century was the awareness among h

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"Making Early Medieval Societies" explores a fundamental question: what held the small- and large-scale commun

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Dark Age Bodies reconstructs the gender ideology of monastic masculinity through an investigation of early medieval read

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The entire conception of repentance and penance in the Oriental Church in the first six centuries is a remedial one: sin

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Gildas is an essential witness to the Christian culture of the British Isles in the opaque period after the decline and

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