Queens and Rebels

20: Life Of a Medieval Nun


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The idea is that nuns renounced the secular world, denounced procession and devoted themselves to prayer, but did they really?  Listen and find out. 


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Sources:

- Schulenburg, Jane Tibbetts. “Women's Monastic Communities, 500-1100: Patterns of Expansion and Decline.” Signs, vol. 14, no. 2, 1989, pp. 261–292. JSTOR, Accessed 19 Dec. 2020.

- POWER, EILEEN. MEDIEVAL ENGLISH NUNNERIES: c. 1275 to 1535 (Classic Reprint). FORGOTTEN Books, 2015.

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Queens and RebelsBy Marta Cholovska