![]() ![]() There is a distinct dearth of the kind of narrative writing that tells us about the inner life of many of the women’s establishments. Few women wrote about their religious lives themselves, and this ‘makes the mental world of the nunneries hard to penetrate’. The canon's views on the place of women in the monastic movement would certainly have been instructive, especially as he was based in Liege, where women played an unusually prominent part in the religious life of the time. Sadly the promised chapter was either never written or has been lost. ![]() In the twelfth-century, the canon of Liege, promised this chapter in his book on the orders and callings of the Church. Finally, we shall return to women who lead the eremitical life, rising to be holy nuns, and to those who sweetly take up the yoke of Christ, with holy men or under their guidance. ![]()
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