The Life of Christina of Markyate
Talbot, C.H. / Fanous, Samuel (Head of Publishing, Bodleian Library) / Leyser, Henrietta (Fellow of St Peter's College, Oxford)![The Life of Christina of Markyate](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/453/4533048/CHSBZCOP034533048.jpg)
The remarkable story of twelfth-century recluse Christina of Markyate, her trials and temptations, who eventually founded a priory. The anonymous Life is a vivid social portrait of a medieval religious woman, a dramatic record of spiritual conviction against all odds.