Eileen Power, best known for her posthumously published Medieval
Women, was one of the foremost scholars of medieval economic and
social history in the first half of the twentieth century. This
1922 work is a substantial study of medieval English nunneries
between 1275 and 1535. Power examines in depth who entered the
convents, how they were organised, their finances, activities and
problems. Although medieval nunneries were significantly poorer and
less well documented than the monastic houses, Power uses the
available sources to build up a multifaceted picture of medieval
life. Her arguments are firmly rooted in documentary evidence, but
are presented in an extremely accessible and engaging style. The
book reveals that convent life was not particularly ascetic or
learned, and that in poorer houses the nuns had to find additional
sources of income. Power's account of their methods of coping makes
fascinating reading.
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