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«Proud as demons»: the rebellious nuns of Port-Royal

Montesquieu.it, 2021
The text starts from the question posed by the nuns of Port-Royal: can the monastic condition ignore the voice of conscience? The dramatic results triggered by the questions had their roots in a book published in 1640: Augustinus by Cornelis Jansen who ...
Silvana Bartoli
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Cistercian Monasteries in Medieval Sweden—Foundations and Recruitments, 1143–1420

Religions, 2021
This article presents an overview of the Cistercian monasteries that were founded in Sweden in the 12th and 13th centuries. The first were Alvastra and Nydala, founded in 1143, both male monasteries.
Catharina Andersson
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Seventeenth-century Prayer Books of Cistercian Nuns in the Collectionof the Parish Library of St Bartholomew and St Hedwig in Trzebnica

Wrocławski Przegląd Teologiczny, 2020
Part of a collection held by Cistercian nuns was deposited in the Library of Trzebnica Parish. Among other works are three manuscript prayer books dated to the 17th century.
Anna Sutowicz
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The History of the Legislation of the Order of St Mary Magdalene of Penance in the Middle Ages: The Rule of St Sixtus

Wrocławski Przegląd Teologiczny, 2020
Due to the activity of Canon Rudolf of Worms, monasteries of penances, self-established in Western and Central Europe, were in 1227 joined into a new order in the Church: Ordo sanctae Mariae Magdalenae de Poenitentia.
Piotr Stefaniak
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De middeleeuwse architectuur van de Cisterciënzerinnen in de Lage Landen

Bulletin KNOB, 2004
In the Low Countries and more particularly in the county of Flanders, the duchy of Brabant and the principality of Liège no less than eighty-five Cistercian nunneries were founded during the Middle Ages.
Thomas Coomans
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Artistic manifestations as a mean of connection to the world outside the cloister: mural paintings in the Monastery of São Bento de Cástris [PDF]

, 2016
S. Bento de Cástris Monastery was the first extramural monastic community in the town of Évora and the first Cistercian female community in southern Portugal. In the 16th century, as in other monasteries, its regular life underwent an intense reformation,
Conde, Antónia Fialho
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Singuli in singulis libris legentes

Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez, 2019
The remains of medieval libraries in the 153 Cistercian abbeys of the Iberian Peninsula make it possible to assessing how exegesis was received and produced.
Ghislain Baury
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Niemodelowe życie średniowiecznych zakonnic w cieniu piastowskich dworów. Uwagi na marginesie pracy Anny Agnieszki Dryblak [PDF]

Kwartalnik Historyczny
The article verifi es the thesis put forward by Anna Agnieszka Dryblak in her book on foundations of female convents in thirteenth-century Poland by the Piast dyna sty.
Przemysław Wiszewski
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Plantes médicinales et régime alimentaire

Archéopages, 2016
Among the vestiges of modern age discovered during the excavations of the Cistercian abbey of Clairefontaine, located in the province of Luxembourg on the present Belgian territory, the latrines provided rich archaeological material, including well ...
Sidonie Preiss
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The Montmorencys and the Abbey of Sainte Trinit�, Caen: Politics, Profit and Reform [PDF]

, 2003
Female religious, especially holders of benefices, made significant contributions to aristocratic family strategy and fortune in early modern France. This study of members of the wider Montmorency family in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries ...
Davies, J
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