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English Register of Godstow Nunnery, Near Oxford - Part I (Paperback)
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English Register of Godstow Nunnery, Near Oxford - Part I (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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First published in 1905, these two volumes together reproduced the
text of Rawlinson MS. B 408 from the Bodleian Library in two parts.
They consist of a preface followed the full Middle English text
with glosses. The initial section of the manuscript is slightly
older and consists of prefixed liturgical pieces such as the
Articles of Excommunication. This follows the common historical
practice of combining manuscripts to encourage their preservation.
The remainder of the text presents the reader with the Register of
the Estates of Godstow Abbey. The manuscript was initially created
as a translation of the Latin register in order to allow the nuns,
who were literate in English but not Latin, to manage their own
estates. This manuscript was, at the time of publication, the only
known complete English-language cartulary made for a monastic
house. It holds significant implications not only for the status,
linguistic development and usage of the English language, but also
for women's history in the church and their socioeconomic agency,
along with the ability of language to both restrict and open doors.
The text includes its own introduction in which the founding of the
Abbey by Dame Edyve of Winchester, first Abbess of Godstow, is
recounted, followed by deeds relating to the local area.
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