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

Contents

q Contents List of Illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xv On Currencies, Names, and Transcriptions xix List of Abbreviations and Short Titles xxi introduction: Written Fragments and living Parts 1 1. Concerning Certain Women: the Women’s religious Movement in Champagne 15 2. Cities of refuge: the social World of religious Women 45 3. under the religious life: reform and the Cistercian order 78 4. the Bonds of Charity: the special Cares of Cistercian nuns 117 5. one and the same Passion: Convents and Crusaders 147 6. a space apart:gender and administration in a new social landscape 171 epilogue:a Deplorable and Dangerous state: Crisis, Consolidation,and Collapse 201 Appendix: Cistercian Convents and Domus-Dei of Champagne 211 Bibliography 217 Index 251 ...