Примери за abbess

• And every bishop, abbot and abbess who is able to do so is to give a pound of silver in alms.

• Petitioners recognized the influential position the abbess had obtained as a result of her own patronage of the exiled and impecunious royalists.

• In return for the aid, the abbess expected to reap the fruits of royal patronage once the king's fortunes were reversed.

• The introductory essay provides a vivid account of some of the last abbesses and prioresses drawn mainly from episcopal and archiepiscopal visitation records.

• The monastery itself provided accommodation for the symposium participants, thanks to the hospitality of the abbess.

• The abbess's influence with the king and his courtiers is only comprehensible in the light of the business she conducted on their behalf.

• Every bishop but one, and a very high proportion of abbots and abbesses, were of noble family.

• It offers a detailed description of the abbess's involvement in royalist affairs, but does not explore the motives for her assistance.

• Given the network of agents the abbess employed, it is probable that some were more invisible to government probing than others.

• Moreover, the abbess ignored other more serious obstacles to her plan.

• The other obstacles hindering the abbess were her gender and her religious profession.

• The abbess acquired such a formidable reputation as a successful patron that other royalists approached her when their own applications to the king's ministers had failed.

• The nuns' duty was to pray and sing the divine office in the convent church with their sisters, attend the chapter chaired by the abbess, and engage in collective works.

• Barrin was, however, convinced of a concerted attempt to undermine the authority of the new abbess, with some nuns claiming her letters of provision were defective.

• As abbess, thelburg began work on a church in honour of the twelve apostles which was left unfinished at her death in 664.