Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 539
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Wybourne , Catherine and Dame
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  • Title: Seafarers and Stay-At-Homes: Anglo-Saxon Nuns and Mission [The author traces the activity of nuns during the Anglo Saxon period from Leoba's missionary efforts in Germany to the much more restricted period in the tenth and eleventh centuries as double houses disappeared].
  • Source: Downside Review 114, 397 (October 1996): Pages 246 - 266.
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  • Article Type: Journal Article
  • Subject (See Also): Double Houses Missionaries Monasticism Noble Women Nuns Patronage, Ecclesiastical Women in Religion
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  • Geographic Area: British Isles
  • Century: 7- 8- 9- 10- 11
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  • Year of Publication: 1996.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 00125806