This book takes an innovative approach to the study of the
penitentials and nunnery rules and the ways in which these texts
impinged upon the lives of female audiences. The study emphasises
the importance of the texts for the promotion of Christian values
and of the expectations of churchmen in the construction of
appropriate Christian behaviour for women in the early medieval
West. These texts constitute the only written works which would
have had direct influence upon the lives of lay and religious
women. The work focuses upon the elements of the penitentials which
provided female-specific expectations, and these fall largely into
two categories of sexuality and pre-Christian practices. The
nunnery rules seldom provided comprehensive sets of behavioural
expectations. Rather, rules emphasised expectations relating to
issues of enclosure, work and abstinence which came to be perceived
as the defining characteristics of religious women.
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