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Creating Cistercian nuns : the women's religious movement and its reform in thirteenth-century Champagne
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- Creator
- Anne E. Lester
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2011
- Physical Details
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- xxii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 1336208031, 9780801462955, 9780801462962, 1501713493, 9780801449895, 0801449898, 0801462967, 9781501713491, 0801462959
- OCLC
- ocn763161316, ocn727704088, ocn979954123
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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