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Article: Female Monastic Life in Early Tudor England: With an Edition of Richard Fox's Translation of the Benedictine Rule for Women, 1517.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
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- September 22, 2003
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Barry Collett, ed. Female Monastic Life in Early Tudor England: With an Edition of Richard Fox's Translation of the Benedictine Rule for Women, 1517. (The Early Modern English-woman, 1500-1750: Contemporary Editions.) Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2002. Pp. x, 179. $69.95. ISBN 1-84014-609-5.
In 1516, Richard Fox, bishop of Winchester, early English humanist, and Lord Privy Seal under Henry VII and Henry VIII, found himself on the wrong side of the tumultuous court politics of the mid-1510s. Excluded from the center of power, a weary and aging Fox turned his attention to his pet projects and to long-neglected pastoral duties in his diocese. He founded Corpus Christi ...