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Creating Cistercian Nuns : The Women's Religious Movement and Its Reform in Thirteenth-Century Champagne /
In Creating Cistercian Nuns, Anne E. Lester addresses a central issue in the history of the medieval church: the role of women in the rise of the religious reform movement of the thirteenth century. Focusing on the county of Champagne in France, Lester reconstructs the history of the women's re...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: written fragments and living parts
- Concerning certain women: the women's religious movement in Champagne
- Cities of refuge: the social world of religious women
- Under the religious life: reform and the Cistercian order
- The bonds of charity: the special cares of Cistercian nuns
- And the same passion: convents and crusaders
- A space apart: gender and administration in a new social landscape
- Epilogue: a deplorable and dangerous state: crisis, consolidation, and collapse
- Appendix: Cistercian convents and domus-dei of Champagne.