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Liz Herbert McAvoy, ‘Carpenter, Christina (fl. 1329–1332)’
Liz Herbert McAvoy
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Swansea University Author: Liz Herbert McAvoy
Abstract
This is an entry on the fourteenth-century anchoress, Christina Carpenter, that pulls together all the information known about her from three scant records, placing her within her socio-cultural context and bringing to bear upon the sources what is known about medieval anchoritism and the bishop who...
| Published in: | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |
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| Published: |
Oxford
Oxford University Press
2014
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| Online Access: |
https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-105610 |
| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa20498 |
| Abstract: |
This is an entry on the fourteenth-century anchoress, Christina Carpenter, that pulls together all the information known about her from three scant records, placing her within her socio-cultural context and bringing to bear upon the sources what is known about medieval anchoritism and the bishop who enclosed - and then re-enclosed - her at Shere, in Surrey. |
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| Keywords: |
Anchoress; Christine Carpenter; Shere |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |