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By Valerie G. Spear

This ebook is an exam of the overdue medieval English nunnery better as an influence dealer. established essentially upon historic files of 16 girl homes within the interval from 1280 to 1540, it addresses management versions, questions of social id and ranging perceptions of the position and function of the abbess or prioress. no matter if prime an abbey or priory, some of the best discharged accountability for either the religious and fiscal care of her convent in an period awesome for the subjugation of ladies and for its schizoid view in their actual and religious attributes. The dialogue is trained by means of a wide variety of documentary proof, together with decisions from episcopal registers, account rolls, plea rolls, Chancery files, letters, petitions, medieval literature and comparative fabric from extra nunneries. The subject matter of clash recurs all through, as spiritual ladies are published guidance their groups among the directives of the church and! the calls for in their budgets or their secular neighbours. The Dissolution and its results at the morale and behavior of the final superiors finish the learn.

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Aungier, p. 288. 5 The fact that a new General Confessor was voted in on the same occasion as that of the abbess’s election made the whole process more cumbersome. For a royal convent it was mandatory, during the period under review, to obtain the bishop’s consent (or the pope’s consent if exempted from episcopal jurisdiction) and also to advise the king of a vacancy and secure his permission to elect a new head. The bishop, if satisfied with the outcome of the election, was required to inform the monarch of his confirmation and ask him to restore the temporalities6 which had been under royal control during the vacancy.

30 A later section of the document gives an unusual example of the first person singular: And now ladies because dame Margaret dovyne president hath also given hur voice to the seide dame Elene Hillarde so I the said dame Margaret Bruster declar and showe . . 32 This can be seen as an example of the increasing sophistication of record-keeping in general. 33 Under normal circumstances, the appointment of the superior was a lifetime commission, although either advanced age or infirmity could precipi- 29 30 31 32 33 GL, MS 9531/9 The Register of Richard Fitzjames (1506–22), fol.

This enabled the final selection of Dame Helen Hyllard as prioress. Dame Brewster observes that Helen was: chosyn priorisse . . by the way of scrutenye . . 30 A later section of the document gives an unusual example of the first person singular: And now ladies because dame Margaret dovyne president hath also given hur voice to the seide dame Elene Hillarde so I the said dame Margaret Bruster declar and showe . . 32 This can be seen as an example of the increasing sophistication of record-keeping in general.

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