Para 1 - Cengage

For further treatment of nuns, see J. K. McNamara, Sisters in Arms (1996), a broad survey tracing the lives of religious women from the mothers of the Egyptian desert to the twentieth century, and B. L. Venarde, Women’s Monasticism in Medieval Society: Nunneries in France and England 890–1215 (1999) which examines social and economic as ... ................
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