Medieval Bibliography

Bitel, Lisa M. "Women's Monastic Enclosures in Early Ireland: A

      Study of Female Spirituality and Male Monastic Mentalities."
      Journal of Medieval History, 12:15-36, 1986.

Godfrey, John. "The Place of the Double Monastery in the AngloSaxon

      Minster System," in Gerald Bonner, ed. Famulus
      Christi: Essays in Commemoration of the Thirteenth Centenary
      of the Birth of the Venerable Bede. London: SPCK, 1976. pp.
      344-50.

Nicholson, Joan. "Feminae Gloriosae: Women in the Age of Bede,"

      in Derek Baker, ed. Medieval Women. Oxford: Basil Blackwell,
      1978. pp. 15-29.

These deal more marginally with women, focussing instead on their institutions:

Blair, Peter Hunter. "Whitby as a Centre of Learning in the

      Seventh Century," in Michael Lapidge and Helmut Gneuss, eds.
      Learning and Literature in Anglo-Saxon England: Studies
      Presented to Peter Clemoes on the Occasion of His 65th
      Birthday. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. pp.
      3-32.

Sims-Williams, Patrick. "Cuthswith, Seventh-Century Abbess of

      Inkberrow, near Worcester, and the Wurzburg ms. of Jerome on
      Ecclesiastes." Anglo-Saxon England, 5:1-21, 1976.
            [mostly, if I remember correctly, dealing with
            manuscript issues]

-------------, -------. "Continental Influence at Bath Monastery

in the Seventh Century." Anglo-Saxon England, 4:1-10, 1975.

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