The White Nuns : : Cistercian Abbeys for Women in Medieval France / / Constance Hoffman Berman.
Modern studies of the religious reform movement of the central Middle Ages have often relied on contemporary accounts penned by Cistercian monks, who routinely exaggerated the importance of their own institutions while paying scant attention to the remarkable expansion of abbeys of Cistercian women....
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
Series: | The Middle Ages Series
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- contents
- Preface
- PART I. WERE THERE CISTERCIAN NUNS IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE?
- Chapter 1. Reform Monasticism and Cistercian Nuns in Western Europe
- Chapter 2. Visitation of Nuns and Their Regularization
- Chapter 3. Cistercian Nuns and the Order’s Economic Practices
- PART II. CISTERCIAN NUNS IN THE ECCLESIASTICAL PROVINCE OF SENS
- Chapter 4. Women Regents, Cistercian Nuns, and Feudal Crisis: Clairets, Villiers, Voisins, and Port-Royal
- Chapter 5. Cistercian Nuns and the Great Heiresses of Chartres, Blois, and Auxerre
- Chapter 6. Blanche of Castile (1188–1252) and Cistercian Abbeys for Nuns
- Chapter 7. Saint-Antoine-des-Champs Outside Paris
- Chapter 8. Nuns and Viticulture in Champagne
- PART III. COMPARISONS AND CONCLUSIONS
- Chapter 9. Cistercian Nuns and Their Predecessors
- Appendix 1. Ad Medium, Amortissement, Augmented Rents, Measures, Money, Names
- Appendix 2. The Evidence: Cistercian Nuns’ Charters and Charter Books
- Appendix 3. Specific Charters and Other Materials for This Study
- Appendix 4. Size Limits of Abbeys for Cistercian and Other Nuns
- Appendix 5. Numbers of Cistercian Nuns’ Houses According to Selected Historians
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments