Collection of letters and texts offering guidance for nuns, and
including selections from Abelard's letters to Heloise. These
translated letters and texts composed for younger and older women
in twelfth-century convents illuminate the powerful medieval ideals
of virginity and chastity. Abelard's history of women's roles in
the church and his letteron women's education, both written for
Heloise in her work as abbess, are seen here alongside previously
untranslated letters and texts for abbesses and nuns in England and
France. An interpretive essay explores the practical and spiritual
engagement of women's convents with medieval commemorative and
memorial practices, showing that the professional concern of women
religious with death goes far beyond the stereotype of nuns as dead
to the world, or enclosed in living death. VERA MORTON gained an MA
in Medieval Studies at the University of Liverpool in 1994. JOCELYN
WOGAN-BROWNE is Professor of English at Fordham University, NY.
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