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Gender and Material Culture is the first book to consider the way in which women's monasticism differed from men's. Traditional scholarship has tended to dismiss nunneries as poor, or failed, monasteries. Here Roberta Gilchrist reveals through a close comparison of monasteries for men and women, stark contrasts in the social and economic status of these religous foundations. The book provides the first complete case of study in the applied archaeology of gender, which will radically inform medieval and early modern women's history.Gilchrist, Roberta is the author of 'Gender and Material Culture The Archaeology of Religious Women' with ISBN 9780415089036 and ISBN 0415089034.
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