Clemence of Barking (fl. 12th c.)
Clemence of Barking (fl. 12th c.)
British nun and translator. Flourished in the late 1100s in England.
Benedictine nun, adapted Latin life of Catherine of Alexandria in Anglo-Norman verse as Vie de sainte Catherine (Life of St. Catherine, c. 1163–69).
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