id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt pk02c823w1d Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis Ministers of Christ: Benedictine Women Religious in Central Medieval England 2015 .txt text/plain 344 9 16 But most innovative and central to this study are the close paleographical and codicological analyses of the surviving liturgical manuscripts that were produced by and for houses of Benedictine women religious in central medieval England. This study shows that far from becoming wholly dependent on such care, many women religious in central medieval England continued to exercise prominent liturgical and pastoral roles in their communities, much like those assumed by their earlier Anglo-Saxon foremothers and by their contemporary Benedictine brothers. cache/pk02c823w1d.txt txt/pk02c823w1d.txt