GENERAL PREFACE
AUTHOR'S PREFACE
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
APPENDIX I
APPENDIX II
APPENDIX III
APPENDIX IV
CAMBRIDGE STUDIES
IN MEDIEVAL LIFE AND THOUGHT
Edited by G. G. Coulton, M.A.
Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge
and University Lecturer in English
MEDIEVAL ENGLISH NUNNERIES
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PLATE I
PAGE FROM LA SAINTE ABBAYE
(At the top of the picture a priest with two acolytes prepares the sacrament; behind them stand the abbess, holding her staff, her chaplain and the sacristan, who rings the bell; behind them a group of four nuns, including the cellaress with her keys. At the bottom is a procession of priest, acolytes and nuns in the quire.)
MEDIEVAL
ENGLISH NUNNERIES
c. 1275 to 1535
BY
EILEEN POWER
SOMETIME FELLOW AND LECTURER
OF GIRTON COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE
MADAME EGLENTYNE
(From the Ellesmere MS.)
CAMBRIDGE
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
1922
TO
M. G. J.
PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN
