The Life of Christina of Markyate
Oxford World’s Classics
The remarkable story of twelfth-century recluse Christina of Markyate, her trials and temptations, who eventually founded a priory. The anonymous Life is a vivid social portrait of a medieval religious woman, a dramatic record of spiritual conviction against all odds.
HRCS; HRCM; DNF
271.9
Samuel Fanous, Henrietta Leyser – Oxford University Press