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RELIGION AND CULTURE IN THE MIDDLE AGES

Anchorites, Wombs and Tombs

Series Editors

Denis Renevey (University of Fribourg)

Diane Watt (University of Wales, Aberystwyth)

Editorial Board

Miri Rubin (Queen Mary, University of London)

Jean-Claude Schmitt (École des Hautes

Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris)

Fiona Somerset (Duke University)

Christiania Whitehead (University of Warwick)

RELIGION AND CULTURE IN THE MIDDLE AGES

Anchorites,

Wombs and Tombs

Intersections of Gender and Enclosure

in the Middle Ages

Edited by

LIZ HERBERT McAVOY and MARI HUGHES–EDWARDS

UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS

CARDIFF

2005

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ISBN 0-7083-1863-0

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