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Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-05-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-15 - Publisher: University of Wales Press
This book celebrates the work and contribution of Professor Janet Burton to medieval monastic studies in Britain. Burton has fundamentally changed approaches to
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-20 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
List of Abbreviations -- Prologue -- The puzzle of the nuns' priest --Biblical models : women and men in the apostolic life -- Jerome and the noble women of Rom
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