Clemence of Barking was a 12th-century Benedictine nun and Anglo-Norman poet-translator of Barking Abbey. She is noted for writing a translation of the biography, the Life of Saint Catherine.
Writers born in the 1200s 6
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Clemence of Barking was a 12th-century Benedictine nun and Anglo-Norman poet-translator of Barking Abbey. She is noted for writing a translation of the biography, the Life of Saint Catherine. Clemence's hagiography of Saint Catherine of Alexandria is widely regarded as, what would be considered today, a Christian feminist text.
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Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1200 to 1300 · aged 100
Written about in
7 languages
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