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Nuns were secluded to avoid scandals in early Christian monastic communities

  • Written by Alison I. Beach, Associate Professor of History, The Ohio State University
Nuns were secluded to avoid scandals in early Christian monastic communitiesMargareta, head of the women's community at Lippoldsberg (in modern-day Germany) clasps hands with an Augustinian monk as he hands her a book.Lippoldsberg Evangeliary. Kassel, Landesbibliothek, MS theol. 2o 59, f. 73v.

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