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Barking Abbey (founded c. 666) is hugely significant for those studying the literary production by and patronage of medieval women. It had one of the largest libraries of any English nunnery, and a history of women's education from the Anglo-Saxon period to the Dissolution; it was also the home of women writers of Latin and Anglo-Norman works, as well as of many Middle English manuscript books. The essays in this volume map its literary history, offering a wide-ranging examination of its liturgical, historio-hagiographical, devotional, doctrinal, and administrative texts, with a particular focus on the important hagiographies produced there during the twelfth century. It thus makes a major contribution to the literary and cultural history of medieval England and a rich resource for the teaching of women's texts. Professor Jennifer N. Brown teaches at Marymount Manhattan College; Professor Donna Alfano Bussell teaches at University of Illinois-Springfield. Contributors: Diane Auslander, Alexandra Barratt, Emma Bérat, Jennifer N. Brown, Donna A. Bussell, Thelma Fenster, Stephanie Hollis, Thomas O'Donnell, Delbert Russell, Jill Stevenson, Kay Slocum, Lisa Weston, Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Anne B. Yardley.

Sociology of literature --- Old English literature --- Christian spirituality --- Great Britain --- English literature --- Literature, Medieval --- Devotional literature, English (Middle) --- Devotional literature, English --- Authors and patrons --- History and criticism --- Women authors --- History --- Barking Abbey --- History and criticism. --- History. --- English literature - Old English, ca. 450-1100 - History and criticism --- English literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism --- English literature - Women authors - History and criticism --- Literature, Medieval - History and criticism --- Devotional literature, English (Middle) - History and criticism --- Devotional literature, English - History and criticism --- Authors and patrons - England - History - To 1500 --- Literary patronage --- Maecenatism --- Patronage of literature --- Sponsorship of literature --- Art patronage --- Literary patrons --- Literature and state --- Abatejo Barking --- Abbazia di Barking --- Opatija Barking --- Anglo-Norman works. --- Authority. --- Authorship. --- Barking Abbey. --- Female Community. --- Latin works. --- Medieval Literary Culture. --- Middle English manuscript books. --- cultural history. --- hagiographies. --- literary history. --- medieval England. --- medieval women writers. --- nunnery. --- women's education. --- women's literature. --- women's texts.