Creating Cistercian Nuns : The Women's Religious Movement and Its Reform in Thirteenth-Century Champagne.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- On Currencies, Names, and Transcriptions -- List of Abbreviations and Short Titles -- Introduction: Written Fragments and Living Parts -- 1. Concerning Certain Women: The Women's Religious Movement in Champagne -- 2. Cities of Refuge: The Social World of Religious Women -- 3. Under the Religious Life: Reform and the Cistercian Order -- 4. The Bonds of Charity: The Special Cares of Cistercian Nuns -- 5. One and the Same Passion: Convents and Crusaders -- 6. 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 -- Bibliography -- Index.

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.

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