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Hace 1 día · Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. At the beginning of the 18th century, some people sought to change voting laws to allow women to vote. Liberal political parties would go on to grant women the right to vote, increasing the number of those parties' potential constituencies.
Hace 5 días · Abbess Sophia was arrested before the rest of the community, and thus she was not sent with the other sisters to the Far East but was thrown from one prison to another, mostly in European Russia. Her sisters here and there managed to keep watch over her, until finally, as a result of the inhuman prison conditions, she contracted asthma and other serious ailments, and she was released to die.
Hace 3 días · Date accessed: 14 May, 2024. I. When an English nun entered a convent in exile in the 17th century, she was expected to leave behind once and for all ‘the world, the flesh, the divill’. Until recently, that enclosure was one of the excuses for the banishment of nuns from historical research, reducing them to a faceless, agentless mass.
Hace 4 días · St. Matilda. Matilda, Queen of Germany and wife of King Henry I was the daughter of Count Dietrich of Westphalia and Reinhild of Denmark. She was born about 895 and was raised by her grandmother ...
Hace 3 días · In 1086 Christine, sister of Edgar Atheling, took the veil at Romsey, as stated in the Saxon chronicle, and became abbess. To the same retreat Christine was followed by her young niece Maud, but she did not take the vows, and became the Queen of Henry I., being married at Martinmas, 1100. (fn. 4) Mary, daughter of King Stephen, became abbess ...
Hace 1 día · HOUSES OF MINORESSES 25. ABBEY OF WATERBEACH. In the year 1293 nuns of a branch of the Second Order of St. Francis called Minoresses came to England. The special Rule called the Isabella Rule, approved in its final form by Urban IV in 1263, had been intended exclusively for the convent of Longchamp, founded in 1255 by Isabelle, the sister of St. Louis, but was adopted by the English houses, at ...
Hace 3 días · HOUSE OF BENEDICTINE NUNS 7. THE ABBEY OF SHAFTESBURY. The Benedictine nunnery of Shaftesbury is generally, though not universally, ascribed to the foundation of Alfred the Great about the year 888; the king, by his charter in honour of God the Blessed Virgin and all the saints, conferring on the nunnery, over which his daughter Elfgiva, Æthelgeofu or Algiva, presided as abbess, 100 hides of ...
