| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
The Middle Ages series |
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Middle Ages series.
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| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
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IJ; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Acknowledgments |
| Summary |
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 traditions |
| Analysis |
Gender Studies |
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History |
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Medieval and Renaissance Studies |
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Religion |
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Religious Studies |
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Women's Studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 12, 2018) |
| Subject |
Cistercians -- France -- History -- To 1500
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| SUBJECT |
Cistercians fast |
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Cistercian convents -- France -- History -- To 1500
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Cistercian nuns -- France -- History -- To 1500
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Abbeys -- France -- History -- To 1500
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Monasticism and religious orders for women -- France -- History -- To 1500
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RELIGION -- Institutions & Organizations.
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HISTORY -- Medieval.
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Abbeys
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Cistercian convents
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Cistercian nuns
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Monasticism and religious orders for women
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France
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780812295085 |
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0812295080 |
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