At 19:29 25/02/98 +0000, you wrote:
>Jim
>
I should probably be asking if you or
>anyone else on the list can point us in the direction of references to nuns' at
>their needlework, as monks at their book-production.
>
Just an idle thought: I mentioned in an earlier posting the wife of Brictric,
the parish priest of Haslebury - a good and pious lady who made vestments
for the
church. John of Ford mentions also a priest called Segar, who had four
sons, three of them monks, the fourth a lay-brother at Ford.
Married clergy were the norm in twelfth-century England; has anyone done
a study of the activities of priests' wives? Did others, like Godida,
specialise
in needlework? Had they a distinct role?
Oriens.
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