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Hidden Lives: the Nuns of Shaftesbury Abbey

[Hardback]

by William Smith

    • Author

      William Smith

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      Hobnob Press

    • Published

      October 2020

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    Hidden Lives: the Nuns of Shaftesbury Abbey

    Today's Price £17.85

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    Product Description

    Founded by King Alfred the Great in or around 888, the Benedictine Abbey of St Mary and St Edward at Shaftesbury was the wealthiest and most important nunnery of its order in England until its suppression by Henry VIII in 1539. Continuing the elitist traditions of its pre-Conquest origins, it remained largely the spiritual preserve of what today would be designated the upper and middle classes of society throughout the Middle Ages. Its abbesses, increasingly drawn from families of the local gentry by the late fourteenth century, enjoyed the same status as feudal barons with similar privileges and responsibilities, overseeing the foundation's large complement of nuns and its extensive estates mainly in Dorset and Wiltshire. This work gives a history of the abbey and its nuns from Anglo-Saxon times, with accounts of the abbesses and their manner of appointment in accordance with royal patronage and prerogative. An appendix contains a chronological list of known nuns, in particular the abbesses, with biographical information where available, from the convent's origins in the late ninth century until its closure and destruction around six hundred and fifty years later. This study has for its focus the lives and identities of the nuns themselves, rather than the abbey as a prominent and privileged royal institution.

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    • Author

      William Smith

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      Hobnob Press

    • Published

      October 2020

    • Weight

      405g

    • Dimensions

      156 x 234 x 12 mm

    • ISBN

      9781906978921

    • ISBN-10

      1906978921

    • Eden Code

      5309975

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    • Author/Creator: William Smith

    • ISBN: 9781906978921

    • Publisher: Hobnob Press

    • Release Date: October 2020

    • Weight: 405g

    • Dimensions: 156 x 234 x 12 mm

    • Eden Code: 5309975

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