Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Heroic role of nuns in history!

Source: Fell, Christine, Clark, Cecily, and Williams, Elizabeth. Women in Anglo-Saxon England. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1984

Page 10

"Written in a very different styple is Lina Eckenstein's Woman under Moasticism, which appeared three years earlier in 1896. Eckenstein makes her views clear in her Preface:


The right to self-development and social responsibility which the woman of today so persistantly asks for is in many ways analogous to the right which the convent secured to womankind a thousand years ago.

"She [Eckenstein] distinguishes much more carefully than Frances Arnold-Forster does beween the reliabiity of differenct types of source material, noting on the one hand the importance of charters, letters and early chronicle references and analysing on the other hand the difference in value between the hagiographical writings of the eighth century and those of the eleventh and twelfth."





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