The white nuns : Cistercian abbeys for women in medieval France / Constance Hoffman Berman.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Middle Ages series.
Main Author: Berman, Constance H. (Author)
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]
Series:Middle Ages series.
Subjects:
Cistercians > France > History > To 1500.
Cistercians.
Cistercian convents > France > History > To 1500.
Cistercian nuns > France > History > To 1500.
Abbeys > France > History > To 1500.
Monasticism and religious orders for women > France > History > To 1500.
11.52 medieval Christianity.
Abbeys.
Cistercian convents.
Cistercian nuns.
Monasticism and religious orders for women.
France.
To 1500
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xvi, 345 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Preface
  • Part I. Were there Cistercian nuns in Medieval Europe? Reform monasticism and Cistercian nuns in western Europe ; Visitation of nuns and their regularization ; Cistercian nuns and the order's economic practices
  • Part II. Cistercian nuns in the ecclesiastical province of Sens. Women regents, Cistercian nuns, and feudal crisis : Clairets, Villiers, Voisins, and Port-Royal ; Cistercian nuns and the great heiresses of Chartres, Blois, and Auxerre ; Blanche of Castile (1188-1252) and Cistercian abbeys for nuns ; Saint-Antoine-des-Champs outside Paris ; Nuns and viticulture in Champagne
  • Part III. Comparisons and conclusions. 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.