Christa, have you consulted Diane Watt's _Secretaries of God: Women Prophets
in Late Medieval and Early Modern England_ (Cambridge: Brewer, 1997)?
Tom Long
At 06:07 PM 7/15/00 +1000, you wrote:
>Does any list member know of the main sources for the life of Elzabeth
>Barton, the "Nun of Kent" or the "Maid of Kent" or more pejoratively, the
>"Mad Nun of Kent" (executed in 1534 )?
>
>I have read Ackroyd's life of Thomas More and he refers to a book by Alan
>Neame published in 1971. I was interested to know what convent she had
>joined and if anyone has seen more recent commentaries on her activities.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Christa Ludlow
>Sydney
>
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