Veiled Women (Vol. I): The Disappearance of Nuns from Anglo-Saxon England (Studies in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland) I

Originally published in 2000. Ebook published 2019. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315264196 "There is no published account of the history of religious women in England before the Norman Conquest. Yet, female saints and abbesses, such as Hild of Whitby or Edith of Wilton, are among the most celebrated women recorded in Anglo-Saxon sources and their stories are of popular interest. This book offers the first general and critical assessment of female religious communities in early medieval England. It transforms our understanding of the different modes of religious vocation and institutional provision and thereby gives early medieval women’s history a new foundation." Cover Half Title Dedication Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Foreward Preface A note on language Abbreviations List of maps 1: Evidential and historiographical problems 2: Religious women in England before the First Viking Age 3: The disappearance of the early Anglo-Saxon nun 4: Women and the tenth-century monastic revolution 5: Widows and vowesses 6: A typology of congregations of women religious in later Anglo-Saxon England 7: Afterword Bibliography Index