women-recluses

Updated: July 13, 2025

In seeking to know more of the history of this MS. we get a most interesting and intimate glimpse of the methods in religious centres in bygone days, when MSS. were few. In quite early times how early is not known there dwelt in the valleys round about Einsiedeln certain devout women-recluses, who later lived, as a community, in four houses, and, ultimately, in a convent.

Alice Kemp-Welch - Of Six Mediæval Women: To Which Is Added A Note on Mediæval Gardens