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Religious Life for Women C.1100-c.1350

Fontevraud in England [Hardback]

by Berenice M. Kerr (education Consultant, Diocese Of Lismore Nsw, Education Consultant, Diocese Of Lismore Nsw)

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      Berenice M. Kerr (education Consultant, Diocese Of Lismore Nsw, Education Consultant, Diocese Of Lismore Nsw)

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      Oxford University Press

    • Published

      July 1999

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      This is the first detailed scholarly study of the Order of Fontevraud's English monastic houses. During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries the Order was notably prestigious and autonomous, renowned both for the prayerfulness of its members and for their independent management of their affairs. The huge following of Robert Arbrissel (d. 1116) included many women - not at first the aristocrats who later dominated the Order of Fontevraud, but prostitutes, beggars, and other representatives of the dregs of society. Urged by Church authorities to stabilize his women followers, Robert gave them a Rule which was, in essentials, that of St Benedict, but he introduced men as chaplains, clerks, and lay-brothers for the nuns. Uniquely, however, for contemporary houses for women, the men were placed firmly under the direction of the nuns and remained there throughout the Order's history. Sister Berenice Kerr's study of Fontevraud's English establishments: Amesbury, Nuneaton, and Westwood (Grovebury, the Order's fourth foundation, was never more than administrative centre) opens up a wide range of insights and information about monasticism and religious life for women in the middle ages.Dr Kerr examines the endowment of each house, and its subsequent acquisition of property and its administration; monastic observance; domestic economy, including expenditure on food and drink; the scale and layout of conventual buildings, and the exploitation of new assets, such as salt-pans, markets, and appropriated churches.

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      • Author

        Berenice M. Kerr (education Consultant, Diocese Of Lismore Nsw, Education Consultant, Diocese Of Lismore Nsw)

      • Book Format

        Hardback

      • Publisher

        Oxford University Press

      • Published

        July 1999

      • Weight

        559g

      • Page Count

        320

      • Dimensions

        140 x 216 x 23 mm

      • ISBN

        9780198207528

      • ISBN-10

        0198207522

      • Eden Code

        1190602

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      • Author/Creator: Berenice M. Kerr (education Consultant, Diocese Of Lismore Nsw, Education Consultant, Diocese Of Lismore Nsw)

      • ISBN: 9780198207528

      • Publisher: Oxford University Press

      • Release Date: July 1999

      • Weight: 559g

      • Dimensions: 140 x 216 x 23 mm

      • Eden Code: 1190602

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