HOLY WOMEN OF TWELFTH-CENTURY ENGLAND
by Elkins, Sharon K
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0807817759
- ISBN 13
- 9780807817759
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University of North Carolina Press. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1988. Hardcover. 0807817759 . Laminate lifting along edges of DJ. DJ has minor shelfwear. ; The number of women who entered religious life in England increased greatly in the twelfth century. Monasteries for women multiplied from approximately a dozen at the centuries' beginning to ten times that many at its close. Holy Women of the Twelfth-Century England is the first systematic study of the most creative and expansive face of women's religious life in English history. Sharon Elkins portrays the women who initiated this growth and the varied forms of religious life they -- and the men cooperating with them -- devised. ; Studies in Religion; 244 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Ancient World Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3907
- Title
- HOLY WOMEN OF TWELFTH-CENTURY ENGLAND
- Author
- Elkins, Sharon K
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0807817759
- ISBN 13
- 9780807817759
- Publisher
- University of North Carolina Press
- Place of Publication
- Chapel Hill
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- 0807817759, Theology, Religion & Spirituality, England, English History, Women's Studies, Medieval Studies, Medieval Church, Medieval History, Mediaeval
- Bookseller catalogs
- Medieval Studies; Medieval History; Theology;
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