Women held positions of wife,mother,peasant and nun during the Middle Ages.
St Teresa of Avila was a Spanish nun who coined the term "mental illness". Since during the middle ages the clergy were the ones to take care of the mentally ill, her discovery gave the church a little bit more understanding as to what they were helping people with.
Girls who wanted to be nuns lived in the convents with the nuns, separated from their families. One of the purposes of the novice period was to test young women to see if they would fit well in the convent, where they would have very little contact with their families.
Nun in the Old Testament is Joshua's father.
A New England Nun was created in 1891.
Women held positions of wife,mother,peasant and nun during the Middle Ages.
There were lots and lots of monks in the Middle Ages. Nuns, too. Roger Bacon was a famous monk of the period, and Hildegard of Bingen was a famous nun.
There was no particular class associated with nuns in the Middle Ages. Nuns were not technically members of the clergy, even if they were highly educated. They could have come from backgrounds that were peasant, noble, or even royal. But technically, they had no class. Perhaps this would make them fit some definitions of the middle class, but middle class implies things that do not fit well with what a nun was.
You have your life all set and don't need to worry about work, money, kids, marriage...there are no distraction
A nun can stop being a nun whenever she wants to do so.
Women held positions of wife,mother,peasant and nun during the Middle Ages.
Maidens in the middle ages wore dresses. You may find a picture of a Roman Catholic Nun wearing a habit. That uniform was the type of dress that all women wore when the order was founded. The nuns simply retained the old style. During the middle ages, the style remained much the same, the colors became much brighter, more varied, and more gaudy.
No a Priest cannot be a woman. Women can be nuns. There are some laws written in Christianity where a Nun cannot celebrate Mass, neither can she hear confessions.
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St Teresa of Avila was a Spanish nun who coined the term "mental illness". Since during the middle ages the clergy were the ones to take care of the mentally ill, her discovery gave the church a little bit more understanding as to what they were helping people with.
Roger Bacon was a famous English monk, who is credited for advancing science a good deal. Hildegard von Bingen was a famous German nun who was a poet and expert in healing herbs.
Public libraries were not introduced in the West until after the Middle Ages ended, so medieval librarians worked in private or institutional libraries. We can be sure that most librarians were not women. That said, there were assuredly libraries in convents, and the librarians were women. So, in answer to the question, I would have to say that in the Middle Ages, a female librarian mostly likely slept in a cell, wore a nun's habit, ate institutional food, and went to prayer several times each day.