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WERE THERE TWELFTH-CENTURY CISTERCIAN NUNS?
Church History, 1999It has been a truism in the history of medieval religious orders that the Cistercians only admitted women late in the twelfth century and then under considerable outside pressure. This view has posited a twelfth-century “Golden Age” when it had been possible for the abbots of the order of Cîteaux to avoid contact with women totally.
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Cistercian Nuns in Medieval England: Unofficial Meets Official
Studies in Church History, 2006Late twentieth-century scholarship on the Cistercian monastic order was dominated by the distinction between elite and popular. The terminology was specific to the Cistercian debate -namely, ‘ideals’ versus ‘reality’ rather than ‘elite’ versus ‘popular’ – but the logic of a high Cistercian culture and a low Cistercian culture is one that students of ...
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Transforming the landscape: Cistercian nuns and the environment in the medieval Low Countries
Journal of Medieval History, 2018This article investigates the extent to which women’s monastic communities intervened in the natural landscape of the southern Low Countries in the Middle Ages, irrevocably transforming the environ...
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The Problem of the Cistercian nuns in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth centuries
Studies in Church History. Subsidia, 1978The early Cistercians were remarkable for their hostility to the feminine sex. ‘No religious body’ wrote Southern, was ‘more thoroughly masculine in its temper and discipline than the Cistercians, none that shunned female contact with greater determination or that raised more formidable barriers against the intrusion of women.’ The whole tenor of ...
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Cistercian Nuns in Northern Italy: Variety of Foundations and Construction of an Identity
2015The article concentrates on two problematical reference points, that is, 1) the moment of foundation or incorporation of the groups of nuns into the Cistercian order and 2) the gradual construction of a community identity. The female monasteries that were part of the Cistercian order from its foundation were a rather small number compared to the total.
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Roving Nuns and Cistercian Realities: The Cloistering of Religious Women in the Thirteenth Century
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 2012This article uses evidence from Cistercian abbeys in Flanders and Hainaut during the thirteenth century to reconsider the role of enclosure policies in shaping the experience of religious women. The frequency with which nuns appear in the charters outside of their cloisters, when combined with the developments in medieval spirituality that produced an ...
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