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https://www.medievalists.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/medieval-nuns.png623428My argument is that contrary to the self-perception and master narrative, the roots of many key aspects of monastic life can be found in much older traditions of female religious life rather than in the imagined world of the desert fathers.