Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535

CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL LIFE AND THOUGHT
Edited by G. G. Coulton, M.A. Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge and University Lecturer in English

PLATE I
PAGE FROM LA SAINTE ABBAYE
(At the top of the picture a priest with two acolytes prepares the sacrament; behind them stand the abbess, holding her staff, her chaplain and the sacristan, who rings the bell; behind them a group of four nuns, including the cellaress with her keys. At the bottom is a procession of priest, acolytes and nuns in the quire.)
MEDIEVAL ENGLISH NUNNERIES
c. 1275 to 1535
BY EILEEN POWER SOMETIME FELLOW AND LECTURER OF GIRTON COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE
MADAME EGLENTYNE (From the Ellesmere MS.)
CAMBRIDGE AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1922
TO M. G. J.