Dark Age Nunneries: The Ambiguous Identity of Female Monasticism, 800-1050 by Steven Vanderputten

Dark Age Nunneries: The Ambiguous Identity of Female Monasticism, 800-1050

Steven Vanderputten

330 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

informative reflective slow-paced
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In Dark Age Nunneries, Steven Vanderputten dismantles the common view of women religious between 800 and 1050 as disempowered or even disinterested witnesses to their own lives. It is based on a study of primary sources from forty female monastic ...

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