Barking Abbey and Medieval Literary Culture

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Barking Abbey and Medieval Literary Culture - Dr. Jennifer Brown and Donna Alfano Bussell, Editors

Barking Abbey (founded c. 666) is hugely significant for those studying the literary production by and patronage of medieval women. The Abbey had one of the largest libraries of any English nunnery, which included a history of women’s education from the Anglo-Saxon period to the Dissolution…