History Professor Publishes Groundbreaking Book on Monasticism and Gender
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History Professor Publishes Groundbreaking Book on Monasticism and Gender


In Dark Age Bodies: Gender and Monastic Practice in the Early Medieval West professor Lynda L. Coon, chair of the University of Arkansas? department of history, reconstructs the gender ideology of monastic masculinity through an investigation of early medieval readings of the body.

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