Creating Cistercian nuns
Subtitle: the women's religious movement and its reform in thirteenth-century Champagne
By: Anne E. Lester
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780801449895
Subjects: Religious life and customs; History; Cistercian nuns; Monastic and religious life of women
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : written fragments and living parts; title: Concerning certain women : the women's religious movement in Champagne; title: Cities of refuge : the social world of religious women; title: Under the religious life : reform and the Cistercian order; title: The bonds of charity : the special cares of Cistercian nuns; title: And the same passion : convents and crusaders; title: A space apart : gender and administration in a new social landscape; title: Epilogue : a deplorable and dangerous state : crisis, consolidation, and collapse; title: Appendix : Cistercian convents and domus-dei of Champagne.