Women and Monasticism in Medieval Europe

Sisters and Patrons of the Cistercian Reform

Edited and translated by Constance H. Berman

Book cover: Women and Monasticism in Medieval Europe

Extent: 146 pages

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Subjects: Medieval Studies, Religious Studies

Series: TEAMS Documents of Practice Series

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(September 2002)

ISBN: 9781580440363

5.51 x 8.5 inches

Price: $14.95

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(September 2002)

ISBN: 9781580445177

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A selection of documents, translated primarily from medieval Latin but occasionally from Old French, that shows how religious women and their patrons managed resources to make monastic communities – particularly a variety of Cistercian communities – work. The records help us reconstruct how nuns and abbesses of Cistercian communities in the thirteenth century organized and kept records, managed their properties, responded to attempts at usurpation, and balanced their lives between devotional practices, which were part of their cloistered world, and family and social responsibilities beyond the convent walls.

Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Charters for Houses Clearly Those of Cistercian Nuns Foundation Charters Reconstructing the Origins of Rifreddo The Urban Scene: Cistercian Nuns at Saint-Antoine-des-Champs near Paris A Foundation in Fulfillment of a Crusader Vow: Port-Royal Queen Blanche of Castille, and Her Cousin, Isabelle of Chartres Part II: More Problematic Examples Coyroux/Obazine: Double-House or Family Monastery? Le Tart and Jully Part III: Statistical Sources Part IV: Narrative and Normative Sources Glossary Further Suggestions for Reading, Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Charters for Houses Clearly Those of Cistercian Nuns
Foundation Charters
Reconstructing the Origins of Rifreddo
The Urban Scene: Cistercian Nuns at Saint-Antoine-des-Champs near Paris
A Foundation in Fulfillment of a Crusader Vow: Port-Royal
Queen Blanche of Castille, and Her Cousin, Isabelle of Chartres
Part II: More Problematic Examples
Coyroux/Obazine: Double-House or Family Monastery?
Le Tart and Jully
Part III: Statistical Sources
Part IV: Narrative and Normative Sources
Glossary
Further Suggestions for Reading

  • Edited and translated by Constance H. Berman