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Religious Life for Women c.1100-c.1350 - Fontevraud in England (Hardcover)
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Religious Life for Women c.1100-c.1350 - Fontevraud in England (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
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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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