medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Diana Wright wrote:
>
> This is a question that I have been wanting to ask for a long time.
>
> What happened to the women?
>
> It seems that there were periods with monasticism & the mendicants --
> early Irish monasticism, Cluniac movement, early Dominicans &
> Franciscans -- when exceptionally large numbers of young men went
> into monasteries. What happened to the women they did not marry?
Perhaps they died in childbirth? (Or replaced those who did.)
John Briggs
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