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1.
Record Number:
4836
Author(s):
Freeman, Elizabeth.
Contributor(s):
Title :
The Medieval Nuns at Watton: Reading Female Agency from Male-Authored Didatic Texts [The author argues that not only did Aelred imbue the nuns at Watton with the Cistercian values of friendship, charity, and chastity, but he also did not object to their acts of revenge against the canon and his pregnant nun lover].
Source:
Magistra , 6., 1 (Summer 2000): Pages 3 - 36.
Year of Publication:
2000.
2.
Record Number:
1081
Author(s):
Freeman, Elizabeth.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Nuns in the Public Sphere: Aelred of Rievaulx's "De Sanctimoniali De Wattun" and the Gendering of Authority [how the Gilbertine nuns of Watton punished a sister who had sexual relations with a man belonging to the double house].
Source:
Comitatus , 27., ( 1996): Pages 55 - 80. [contributions are accepted from graduate students and those who have received their doctorates within the last three years]
Year of Publication:
1996.
3.
Record Number:
1130
Author(s):
McNamara, Jo Ann.
Contributor(s):
Title :
The Nun of Watton [translation of Aelred's account of the nun who sleeps with a young monk and becomes pregnant; the other nuns castrate the guilty youth but when the foetus disappears they judge it to be a miracle and cease punishing the penitent nun].
Source:
Magistra , 1., 1 (Summer 1995): Pages 122 - 137.
Year of Publication:
1995.