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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture

On 09/01/2011 17:03, Rosemary Hayes-Milligan and Andrew Milligan wrote:
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> Today's Oxford DNB Life of the Day is Maxine Berg's biography of Eileen
> Edna Le Poer Power [married name Postan] (1889-1940), economic historian
> and author of Medieval English Nunneries (1922), etc.

You have to wonder sometimes why some people are selected for 
canonisation in the ODNB, and others are not. Presumably those who study 
medieval (and later) canonisation and hagiography will have some indight 
into this.

John Briggs

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