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The white nuns : Cistercian abbeys for women in medieval France /

The White Nuns considers Cistercian women and the women who were their patrons in a clear-eyed reading of narrative texts and administrative records. In rejecting long-accepted misogynies and misreadings, Constance Hoffman Berman offers a robust model for historians writing against received traditio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Berman, Constance H. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]
Colección:Middle Ages series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; 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 ParisChapter 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; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H.
  • IJ; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Acknowledgments.