10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VOWESS»
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1
Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia
The vowess demonstrated a permanent state of spiritual ''widowhood'' through
her celibacy and prayer. Canon law required the bishop to complete the vowing
ritual, particularly for virgins, although sources sometimes acknowledged that ...
2
Signs of Devotion: The Cult of St. Æthelthryth in Medieval ...
Vowess clothing seems to have been indistinguishable from that of widows.
Besides the veil, mantle, and ring mentioned in this rite, the widow's wimple was
worn. . . . Mass resumed with the offertory, and at the mass's end the woman
received ...
3
Reforming Printing: Syon Abbey's Defence of Orthodoxy 1525-1534
This seems to have established a pattern, as the Disce Mori was probably written
at Syon for a vowess too, 'Dame Alice'.4 There are further examples of prominent
laywomen following the Duchess of Clarence's example. Margaret Hungerford ...
4
The Convent and the Community in Late Medieval England: ...
Countess of Oxford, was a vowess at Campsey Ash in 1347; she retained her
status as such when she left there to reside at her son-in-law's foundation,
Bruisyard Abbey, in 1369.43 Vowesses were also resident throughout the
fifteenth ...
5
Religion, Politics and Society in Britain, 800-1066
Two others, Eadflaed and Aethelhild, lived atWilton, asdid Edward's discarded
second wife, Aelfflaed, possibly as a vowess. All three were buried there. Histhird
wife, Eadgifu, who likewise mayhave becomea vowess,spentsome timeat ...
1430, Joan Clopton, widow, vowess. Cowfold, Sussex, 1433, Thos. Nelond,
Cluniac Prior of Lewes. Nether Wallop, Hants., 1436, Dame Maria Gore, prioress.
St. Laurence, Norwich, 1437, Geoff. Langley, Benedictine Prior of Horsham St.
Faith.
Herbert Walter Macklin, 1907
7
Rich Apparel: Clothing and the Law in Henry VIII's England
... Thomas Stanley, and she established a separate household at Colyweston.86
Her portraits all depicted her dressed in the clothes of a vowess, with a black
gown, mantle and wimple and a white pleated barb. An inventory of her wardrobe
of ...
8
Lay Piety and Religious Discipline in Middle English Literature
By adopting the vowess status, well-offwidows might embark upon holy lives in
the world by bringing the gentry household into the monastery, in a process of
translation that demonstrates the ready exchange and com— patibility of material
...
Juliana Amyell, Vowess, Witton, Norfolk, c. 1505. John Norton, with cope and
crozier, South Creake, Norfolk, 1509. A Monk and a Nun, among children of John
Hampton, Minchinhampton, Glos., c. 1510. Rich. Bewfforeste, Augustinian Abbot
of ...
10
Mary Magdalene and the Drama of Saints: Theater, Gender, and ...
The ceremony that established the widowed vowess's vocation resembled that of
religious profession, but she was neither nun nor wife; she was chaste but not
virginal. The vowess typiWed the “permeable partition” between lay and religious
...
