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The Life of Christina of Markyate - A Twelfth-Century Recluse (Hardcover, New Impression)
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The Life of Christina of Markyate - A Twelfth-Century Recluse (Hardcover, New Impression)
Series: Oxford Medieval Texts
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The Life of Christiana of Markyate gives an exceptionally vivid
account of the struggles of a young girl, vowed at an early age to
celibacy, to escape the matrimonial snares set by her parents and
her friends. She was born of well-to-do burgesses of Huntingdon in
the opening years of the twelfth century, who succeeded in
betrothing her to a local nobleman. But the marriage was not
consummated, and eventually she escaped, became a recluse and a
nun, and the prioress of a small community at Markyate in
Hertfordshire, under the patronage of the abbot and monks of St
Albans, who made the famous St Albans' Psalter for her. The Life,
written by one of her chaplains largely from her own reminiscences,
was discovered, or rediscovered, by C.H. Talbot in a Cotton
Manuscript in the British Library. First published by the Clarendon
Press in 1959, it is now reissued. It is one of the remarkable
discoveries of our time, and a classic of historical literature.
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