TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lester,Anne E.
TI  - Creating Cistercian Nuns: The Women's Religious Movement and Its Reform in Thirteenth-Century Champagne
SN  - 9780801462955
AV  - BX4328.Z5 
U1  - 271/.97 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Cistercian nuns -- France -- Champagne-Ardenne -- History -- To 1500
KW  - Monastic and religious life of women -- France -- Champagne-Ardenne -- History -- To 1500
KW  - Champagne-Ardenne (France) -- Religious life and customs
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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