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| Date: | 2017 |
| Title: | “I was so bold to write to your mastership my mind, and all my sisters”: The Communal Negotiation of Dartford Priory in the Letters of Elizabeth Cressener to Thomas Cromwell |
| Author: | Goodwin, Elizabeth |
| Publisher: | Mittelalter |
| Citation: | Elizabeth Goodwin, “I was so bold to write to your mastership my mind, and all my sisters”: The Communal Negotiation of Dartford Priory in the Letters of Elizabeth Cressener to Thomas Cromwell, in: Mittelalter. Interdisziplinäre Forschung und Rezeptionsgeschichte, 12 March 2017, https://mittelalter.hypotheses.org/9813. |
| Description: | Around the mid-1530s in Kent, amid the context of Minor Dissolutions, governmental visitations and Continental religious upheaval, Dartford Priory’s long-standing prioress Elizabeth Cressener wrote to Thomas Cromwell with the communal good of her convent in mind. Asking “especially that we may not receive into our poor monastery none of any other religion”, Cressener asserted not only the strongly order-ed identity of these Dominican women, but also implied the formidable strength of communal... |
| URI: | https://www.amad.org/jspui/handle/123456789/80436 |
| Other Identifier: | http://mittelalter.hypotheses.org/9813 |
| License: | CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported |
| AMAD ID: | 9813 |
| Appears in Collections: | General history of Europe Mittelalter. Interdisziplinäre Forschung und Rezeptionsgeschichte Open Access |
