(026395) Elkins, Sharon K. Holy Women Of
Twelfth-Century England. Chapel Hill, NC: Univ. Of North Carolina, 1988. 1st
Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 244 pages. Fine in Fine DJ. The first systematic study
of the most creative and expansive phase of women's religious life in English
history. Monasteries for women multiplied from approximately a dozen at the
beginning of the 12th century to ten times that many at its close. ISBN:
0807817759 (Monasticism, Women, Hermits, England)
