This two-volume set offers a critical assessment of female religious communities in early medieval England. It provides an understanding of the different modes of religious vocation and institutional provision from the first Viking age to 1066.
A nuanced portrait of this powerful and innovative king. 'In the pages of this remarkable biography - a work suffused with a rare empathy - Aethelstan emerges as a character of flesh and blood' "TLS
This first part of a two-volume set offers a critical assessment of female religious communities in early medieval England. It includes sections on religious women in England before the first Viking age and women and the 10th-century monastic revolution.
This second part of a two volume set offers a critical assessment of female religious communities in early medieval England. It contains information on female religious communities in England from 871-1066 and an index of Anglo-Saxon charters.