Benedicta Ward
Benedicta Ward SLG is a sister of the community of the Sisters of the Love of God, based in Oxford. Author of Anselm of Canterbury (SPCK, 2009), she is also Reader in the History of Christian Spirituality at the University of Oxford and an honorary lecturer at Harris Manchester College. She has written a number of books on early monasticism and on the Middle Ages, and is one of the world’s most knowledgeable writers on the legacy of the Desert Fathers and Mothers.
