Barking Abbey and Medieval Literary Culture: Authorship and Authority in a Female Community

(An) admirable collection. . For anyone interested in what Wogan-Browne calls ＂the historiography of female community＂, nuns’ libraries and literacy, and Barking abbey itself, this first-class collection of essays is essential reading. CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW Essays on the texts produced at Barking Abbey - one of the most important centres for writings in the Middle Ages.