Description: Barking Abbey (founded c. 666) is hugely significant for those studying the literary production by and patronage of medieval women. The essays in this volume map its literary history, offering a wide-ranging examination of its liturgical, historio-hagiographical, devotional, doctrinal, and administrative texts.
Brief description: THOMAS O'DONNELL is Associate Professor of English and Medieval Studies at Fordham University, New York, USA.
Review Quotes: To be welcomed as a significant study of female literacy and monastic life in the Middle Ages.-- "ENGLISH"