LEADER 04875nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910781931603321 005 20230725053729.0 010 $a1-5017-1349-3 010 $a0-8014-6296-7 010 $a0-8014-6295-9 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801462955 035 $a(CKB)2550000000063270 035 $a(OCoLC)763161316 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10508787 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000535497 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11333876 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000535497 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10546595 035 $a(PQKB)10613980 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001499042 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138261 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28846 035 $a(DE-B1597)478466 035 $a(OCoLC)979954123 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801462955 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138261 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10508787 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL752089 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000063270 100 $a20110527d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCreating Cistercian nuns$b[electronic resource] $ethe women's religious movement and its reform in thirteenth-century Champagne /$fAnne E. Lester 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (283 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-336-20803-1 311 $a0-8014-4989-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tList of Illustrations -- $tPreface -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tOn Currencies, Names, and Transcriptions -- $tList of Abbreviations and Short Titles -- $tIntroduction: Written Fragments and Living Parts -- $t1. Concerning Certain Women: The Women's Religious Movement in Champagne -- $t2. Cities of Refuge: The Social World of Religious Women -- $t3. Under the Religious Life: Reform and the Cistercian Order -- $t4. The Bonds of Charity: The Special Cares of Cistercian Nuns -- $t5. One and the Same Passion: Convents and Crusaders -- $t6. A Space Apart: Gender and Administration in a New Social Landscape -- $tEpilogue: A Deplorable and Dangerous State: Crisis, Consolidation, and Collapse -- $tAppendix: Cistercian Convents and Domus-Dei of Champagne -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aIn 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. Focusing on the county of Champagne in France, Lester reconstructs the history of the women's religious movement and its institutionalization within the Cistercian order.The common picture of the early Cistercian order is that it was unreceptive to religious women. Male Cistercian leaders often avoided institutional oversight of communities of nuns, preferring instead to cultivate informal relationships of spiritual advice and guidance with religious women. As a result, scholars believed that women who wished to live a life of service and poverty were more likely to join one of the other reforming orders rather than the Cistercians. As Lester shows, however, this picture is deeply flawed. Between 1220 and 1240 the Cistercian order incorporated small independent communities of religious women in unprecedented numbers. Moreover, the order not only accommodated women but also responded to their interpretations of apostolic piety, even as it defined and determined what constituted Cistercian nuns in terms of dress, privileges, and liturgical practice. Lester reconstructs the lived experiences of these women, integrating their ideals and practices into the broader religious and social developments of the thirteenth century-including the crusade movement, penitential piety, the care of lepers, and the reform agenda of the Fourth Lateran Council. The book closes by addressing the reasons for the subsequent decline of Cistercian convents in the fourteenth century. Based on extensive analysis of unpublished archives, Creating Cistercian Nuns will force scholars to revise their understanding of the women's religious movement as it unfolded during the thirteenth century. 606 $aCistercian nuns$zFrance$zChampagne-Ardenne$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aMonastic and religious life of women$zFrance$zChampagne-Ardenne$xHistory$yTo 1500 607 $aChampagne-Ardenne (France)$xReligious life and customs 615 0$aCistercian nuns$xHistory 615 0$aMonastic and religious life of women$xHistory 676 $a271/.97 686 $a8,2$2ssgn 700 $aLester$b Anne Elisabeth$f1974-$01500949 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781931603321 996 $aCreating Cistercian nuns$93771054 997 $aUNINA