Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

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1. Record Number: 29907
Author(s): Berman, Constance Hoffman
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Title : Two Medieval Women’s Property and Religious Benefactions in France: Eleanor of Vermandois and Blanche of Castile

Source: Viator , 41., 2 ( 2010): Pages 151 - 182.
Year of Publication: 2010.

2. Record Number: 24048
Author(s): Berman, Constance Hoffman
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Title : Noble Women's Power as Reflected in the Foundations of Cistercian Houses for Nuns in Thirteenth-Century Northern France: Port-Royal, les Clairets, Moncey, Lieu and Eau-lez-Chartres [The author examines five Cistercian female houses supported by Matilda of Brunswick, the Countess of the Perche; Matilda of Garlande, Lady of Marly; and Isabelle, Countess of Chartres with the help of her daughter, Matilda of Amboise. Berman argues that these actions reveal the power and authority women exercised and need to be incorporated into the historical narrative. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Negotiating Community and Difference in Medieval Europe: Gender, Power, Patronage, and the Authority of Religion in Latin Christendom. Edited by Katherine Allen Smith and Scott Wells Studies in the History of Christian Traditions . Brill, 2009. Viator , 41., 2 ( 2010): Pages 137 - 149.
Year of Publication: 2009.

3. Record Number: 11529
Author(s): Barclay-Lloyd, Joan E.
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Title : The Church and Monastery of S. Pancrazio, Rome [In 1204 Innocent III crowned Peter II of Aragon at San Pancrazio outside Rome. San Pancrazio had been a Benedictine monastery since the late 6th century, but the monks were replaced by a group of penitent women in 1255. These women became Cistercians shortly thereafter, remaining until Ambrosian Friars replaced them in 1438. The 13th-century reduction of the church to a single nave without side aisles and divided by a screen wall may represent adaptation to the need of these nuns for more privacy. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Pope, Church and City: Essays in Honour of Brenda M. Bolton. Edited by Frances Andrews, Christoph Egger and Constance M. Rousseau Medieval Mediterranean . Brill, 2004. Cîteaux: Revue d'Histoire Cistercienne , 55., 40241 ( 2004): Pages 245 - 266.
Year of Publication: 2004.

4. Record Number: 14095
Author(s): Reimann, Heike.
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Title : Cistercian Nuns in the High Middle Ages: The Cistercians of Bergen in the Principality of Rügen (North Germany)

Source: Cîteaux: Revue d'Histoire Cistercienne , 55., 40241 ( 2004): Pages 231 - 244.
Year of Publication: 2004.

5. Record Number: 14094
Author(s): Faesen, Rob S.J.
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Title : Was Hadewijch a Beguine or a Cistercian? An Annotated Hypothesis

Source: Cîteaux: Revue d'Histoire Cistercienne , 55., 40180 ( 2004): Pages 47 - 63.
Year of Publication: 2004.

6. Record Number: 14096
Author(s): Freeman, Elizabeth.
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Title : Houses of a Peculiar Order: Cistercian Nunneries in Medieval England, with Special Attention to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries [Only two English women's monasteries, Marham and Tarrant, were officially incorporated as Cistercian houses. However, visitation records, mortuary rolls, and other evidence document unofficial houses for women that claimed Cistercian privileges. Freeman

Source: Cîteaux: Revue d'Histoire Cistercienne , 55., 40241 ( 2004): Pages 245 - 287.
Year of Publication: 2004.

7. Record Number: 18423
Author(s): Freeman, Elizabeth
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Title : Cistercian Women in Medieval England, Twelfth to Sixteenth Centuries [The author briefly outlines her current research on female Cistercian houses (official and unofficial) in England. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Monastic Research Bulletin , 9., ( 2003): Pages 25 - 26.
Year of Publication: 2003.

8. Record Number: 11950
Author(s): Shadis, Miriam and Constance Hoffman Berman
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Title : A Taste of the Feast: Reconsidering Eleanor of Aquitaine's Female Descendants [The authors profile Eleanor's female descendants, especially her daughters and their daughters. In the lives of figures including Blanche of Castile and Leonor, queen of Aragon, Shadis and Berman analyze their uses of power in the areas of politics, patronage, and family. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord and Lady. Edited by Bonnie Wheeler and John Carmi Parsons The New Middle Ages . Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Cîteaux: Revue d'Histoire Cistercienne , 55., 40241 ( 2004): Pages 177 - 211.
Year of Publication: 2003.

9. Record Number: 9676
Author(s): Newman, Martha G.
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Title : Real Men and Imaginary Women: Engelhard of Langheim Considers a Woman in Disguise [The author examines an exemplum written by the Cistercian monk Engelhard of Langheim concerning a monk at Schönau who at death was discovered to be a woman. Engelhard attempted to make her a model for male Cistercians but, unlike later narrators, he ignored the tradition of holy women and the new ideas connecting female weakness to divine strength. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Speculum , 78., 4 (October 2003): Pages 1184 - 1213.
Year of Publication: 2003.

10. Record Number: 10516
Author(s): Rasmussen, Linda.
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Title : Order, Order! Determining Order in Medieval English Nunneries [The author examines Stamford Priory, a house for women founded around 1160, as a case study for the importance of monastic affiliation. At various points the prioress petitioned for tax relief based on poverty and the priory's affiliation as a Cistercian house. At the same time the male Benedictine monastery at Peterborough, Stamford's patron, successfully resisted Stamford's efforts to stop paying fees to the large Benedictine house. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Our Medieval Heritage: Essays in Honour of John Tillotson for His 60th Birthday. Edited by Linda Rasmussen, Valerie Spear, and Dianne Tillotson . Merton Priory Press, 2002. Monastic Research Bulletin , 9., ( 2003): Pages 30 - 49.
Year of Publication: 2002.

11. Record Number: 10643
Author(s): Dunlop, Anne.
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Title : Once More on the Patronage of Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Frescoes at S. Galgano Montesiepi [In suggesting a new patron for the frescoes (a lay-brother associated with the monastery), Dunlop explores the Virgin Mary's role in the paintings done by Lorenzetti. The theme of calling and acceptance is represented both in the Annunciation and in the one scene from Galgano's life. Mary is also presented as the Queen of Heaven to her Cistercian knightly followers. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte , 63., ( 2000): Pages 387 - 403.
Year of Publication: 2000.

12. Record Number: 4635
Author(s): Berman, Constance H.
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Title : The "Labours of Hercules," the Cartulary, Church, and Abbey for Nuns of la Cour- Notre- Dame- de- Michery

Source: Journal of Medieval History , 26., 1 (March 2000): Pages 33 - 70.
Year of Publication: 2000.

13. Record Number: 6094
Author(s): Nyberg, Tore.
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Title : On Female Monasticism and Scandinavia [The author provides a brief overview of the development of women's monastic houses in Scandinavia, concentrating in particular on the Cistercian, mendicant, and Brigittine orders].

Source: Mediaeval Scandinavia , 13., ( 2000): Pages 181 - 197.
Year of Publication: 2000.

14. Record Number: 3827
Author(s): Berman, Constance H.
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Title : Were There Twelfth-Century Cistercian Nuns?

Source: Church History (Full Text via JSTOR) 68, 4 (Dec. 1999): 824-864. Link Info Later published in Medieval Religion: New Approaches. Edited by Constance Hoffman Berman. Routledge, 2005. Pages 217-248.
Year of Publication: 1999.

15. Record Number: 5391
Author(s): Noell, Brian.
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Title : Marian Lyric in the Cistercian Monastery During the High Middle Ages ["This paper will place lyric poetry dedicated to the Virgin within the Cistercian context. I shall attempt to show that Marian verse, the sequence in particular, was well suited to the devotional needs of the monks of the twelfth- and early thirteenth-century Cistercian houses. Furthermore, I will demonstrate that it conformed well to a monastic environment which focused on the religious value of interactions of the monks with written texts. Finally, I shall illustrate how poetry provided an expanded vocabulary for the expression of the ever growing devotion in the order to Our Lady. The paper will conclude with an analysis of a collection of verse from the early thirteenth century composed by an anonymouse monk of Saint Mary of Noah (La Noë), a Cistercian house in northern France." (Pages 39-40)].

Source: Comitatus , 30., ( 1999): Pages 37 - 61.
Year of Publication: 1999.

16. Record Number: 7811
Author(s): Vseteckova, Zuzana.
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Title : The Cistercian Origin of the Osek Lectionary and the Mural Paintings in the Royal Chapel of the Cistercian Monastery of Plasy

Source: Cîteaux: Revue d'Histoire Cistercienne , 47., ( 1996): Pages 285 - 300.
Year of Publication: 1996.

17. Record Number: 3585
Author(s): Fein, Susanna Greer.
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Title : Maternity in Aelred of Rievaulx's Letter to His Sister

Source: Medieval Mothering. Edited by John Carmi Parsons and Bonnie Wheeler . Garland Publishing, 1996. Cîteaux: Revue d'Histoire Cistercienne , 47., ( 1996): Pages 139 - 156.
Year of Publication: 1996.

18. Record Number: 937
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Title : The "Life of Alice" and the Silver Age at Villers [suggests that the "Life" of Alice the Leper was written by Arnulf II, Abbot of Villers, to inspire his monks to Eucharistic devotion and to an acceptance of greater austerity and a more cloistered life.]

Source: Cistercian Studies Quarterly , 31., 1 ( 1996): Pages 51 - 74.
Year of Publication: 1996.

19. Record Number: 3679
Author(s): Shadis, Miriam.
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Title : Piety, Politics, and Power: The Patronage of Leonor of England and Her Daughters Berenguela of Léon and Blanche of Castile [The author argues that Leonor and her daughters used patronage as a means to power, authority, and piety; they did this to ensure the power of their families and lineage, hence their active efforts to memorialize their dead].

Source: The Cultural Patronage of Medieval Women. Edited by June Hall McCash . University of Georgia Press, 1996. Cistercian Studies Quarterly , 31., 1 ( 1996): Pages 202 - 227.
Year of Publication: 1996.

20. Record Number: 2285
Author(s): Bouton, Jean de la Croix, O.C.S.O.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Life of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Century Nuns of Cîteaux

Source: Hidden Springs: Cistercian Monastic Women. Book One. Medieval Religious Women Volume Three. Edited by John A. Nichols and Lillian Thomas Shank, O.S.C.O Cistercian Studies Series . Cistercian Publications, 1995. Cistercian Studies Quarterly , 31., 1 ( 1996): Pages 11 - 27.
Year of Publication: 1995.

21. Record Number: 2288
Author(s): Carville, Geraldine.
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Title : Cistercian Nuns in Medieval Ireland: Plary Abbey, Ballymore, County Westmeath

22. Record Number: 2289
Author(s): Degler-Spengler, Brigitte.
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Title : The Incorporation of Cistercian Nuns Into the Order in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Century

23. Record Number: 2302
Author(s): Mikkers, Edmund, O.C.S.O.
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Title : Meditations on the "Life" of Alice of Schaerbeek

24. Record Number: 2308
Author(s): Mikkers, Edmund, O.C.S.O.
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Title : The Spirituality of Cistercian Nuns: A Methodological Approach [overview of sources available including the "Usages," official records, biographies, spiritual writings by nuns, works by monks for women, and material remains].

Source: Hidden Springs: Cistercian Monastic Women. Book Two. Medieval Religious Women Volume Three. Edited by John A. Nichols and Lillian Thomas Shank, O.S.C.O Cistercian Studies Series . Cistercian Publications, 1995. Cistercian Studies Quarterly , 31., 1 ( 1996): Pages 525 - 539.
Year of Publication: 1995.

25. Record Number: 2296
Author(s): Tartara, Lucia, O.C.S.O. and Manuela Strola, O.C.S.O.
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Title : Saint Franca of Italy

26. Record Number: 5154
Author(s): Chauvin, Benoît.
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Title : Hildegarde de Bingen et les Cisterciens. Note sur les "Epistolae LXX" et "LXXR" [the author analyzes a letter sent to Hildegard by five Cistercian abbots who ask that she help a noble woman who has been unable to have children ; the author examines the tenures of each of the abbots, arriving at a new date for the letter, between the summer of 1159 and January 1162].

Source: Cîteaux: Revue d'Histoire Cistercienne , 46., 40180 ( 1995): Pages 159 - 165.
Year of Publication: 1995.

27. Record Number: 2286
Author(s): Connor, Elizabeth, O.C.S.O.
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Title : The Abbeys of Las Huelgas and Tart and Their Filiations

28. Record Number: 2292
Author(s): McGuire, Brian Patrick.
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Title : The Cistercians and Friendship: An Opening to Women [descriptions of spiritual friendships between male Cistercians and women; the author then suggests reasons for this change in attitude from the earlier Cistercian practice of avoiding any involvement with women].

29. Record Number: 2304
Author(s): Blamires, Alcuin.
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Title : Ida of Léau, or, The Inconveniences of Ecstasy

30. Record Number: 2301
Author(s): Scholl, Edith, O.C.S.O.
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Title : The Golden Cross: Aleydis of Schaerbeek

31. Record Number: 2303
Author(s): O'Dell, Colman, O.C.S.O.
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Title : Ida of Léau: Woman of Desire

32. Record Number: 2309
Author(s): O'Dell, Colman, O.C.S.O.
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Title : On Eagles' Wings: Symbols of Spiritual Motherhood in the Writings of the Early Cistercian Fathers

33. Record Number: 2297
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Title : Ida of Nivelles: Cistercian Nun

34. Record Number: 2298
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Title : With Desire Have I Desired: Ida of Nivelles' Love for the Eucharist

35. Record Number: 2299
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Title : An Introduction to the "Vita Beatricis"

36. Record Number: 2291
Author(s): Lackner, Bede and O. Cist
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Title : Cistercian Nuns in Medieval Hungary [histories of the five Cistercian monasteries for women in Hungary].

37. Record Number: 2287
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Title : Cistercian Nuns in Twelfth and Thirteenth Century England [essay concludes with a list of English Cistercian nunneries, their locations, founding dates, rank as priory or abbey, and dates of dissolution].

38. Record Number: 351
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Title : Beatrice of Nazareth (c. 1200-1268): A Search for Her True Spirituality

Source: Vox Mystica: Essays on Medieval Mysticism in Honor of Professor Valerie M Lagorio. Edited by Anne Clark Bartlett, Thomas H. Bestul, Janet Goebel, and William F. Pollard . D.S. Brewer, 1995. Cistercian Studies Quarterly , 31., 1 ( 1996): Pages 57 - 74.
Year of Publication: 1995.

39. Record Number: 2290
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Title : Cistercian Nuns in Germany in the Thirteenth Century: Upper-Swabian Cistercian Abbeys Under the Paternity of Salem [role of Abbot Eberhard and the monastery of Salem in the founding and development of six Cistercian women's monasteries ; the author suggests that one of the motivations was to strengthen Hohenstaufen control over upper Swabia].

40. Record Number: 5100
Author(s): Barrière, Bernadette.
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Title : Coyroux, Doublet féminin de l'Abbaye d'Obazine (Limousin, XIIe-XIIIe siècles) [The author, using textual and archaeological evidence, considers the dependence of the female house at Coyroux on the nearby male house ; Coyroux needed financial support, spiritual care, and even contact with the outside world through Obazine.]

Source: Les Religieuses dans le Cloître et dans le Monde des Origines à Nos Jours. Actes du Deuxième Colloque International de C.E.R.C.O.R. Poitiers, 29 septembre-2 octobre 1988. . Publications de l'Université de Sainte-Etienne, 1994. Cîteaux: Revue d'Histoire Cistercienne , 46., 40180 ( 1995): Pages 131 - 138.
Year of Publication: 1994.

41. Record Number: 5103
Author(s): Bouton, Jean de la Croix.
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Title : Les Abbesses cisterciennes

42. Record Number: 8638
Author(s): Chauvin, Benoît.
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Title : À propos des débuts de l'abbaye de Rieunette [The author writes a brief note about the founding of Rieunette, a women's Cistercian monastery in Ladern-sur-Lauquet in the département of Aude. He argues that the Reine mentioned in records is probably Reine de Castillon, the widow of Bernard de Castillon, whose family did a great deal for the religious houses in the area. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Cîteaux: Revue d'Histoire Cistercienne , 43., 40182 ( 1992): Pages 450 - 454.
Year of Publication: 1992.

43. Record Number: 10305
Author(s): Moor, Geertruida de.
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Title : Laybrothers and Laysisters in Frisia and Holland: Circa 1300 - Circa 1600 [The article considers the various roles of lay brothers and sisters of the Cistercian order in Holland and Frisia. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Cistercian Studies Quarterly , 27., 4 ( 1992): Pages 329 - 339.
Year of Publication: 1992.

44. Record Number: 15210
Author(s): Montulet- Henneau, Marie-Élisabeth.
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Title : Itinéraire spirituel de moniales Cisterciennes: de Bernard à Ignace [The author provides a brief overview of the religious life of the Cistercian nuns in the diocese of Liège from the thirteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Revue Mabillon: Nouvelle Série , 3., 64 ( 1992): Pages 179 - 188.
Year of Publication: 1992.

45. Record Number: 10294
Author(s): Barriere, Bernadette.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Cistercian Convent of Coyroux in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries [The article considers the implications of the harsh living conditions at the Coyroux Cistercian convent. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Gesta 31, 2 (1992): 76-82. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1992.

46. Record Number: 8662
Author(s): Waddell, Chrysogonus, O.C.S.O.
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Title : One Day in the Life of the Savigniac Nun: Jehanne de Deniscourt [The author describes the daily life of a nun at the priory of Les Blanches (one of a group of Cistercian abbeys founded near Savigny, France, in the twelfth century). The exact date the author imaginatively reconstructs is the Feast Day of Saint Cecilia (November 22) in the year 1232. The article offers detailed descriptions of all twenty articles of the rule of the nuns of Les Blanches, which establishes guidelines regarding such things as the age of novices, proper clothing and attire, kitchen duties, female servants, food provisions, and community income. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Cistercian Studies Quarterly , 26., 2 ( 1991): Pages 134 - 151.
Year of Publication: 1991.

47. Record Number: 9530
Author(s): France, James.
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Title : From Bernard to Bridget: Cistercian Contribution to a Unique Scandinavian Monastic Body

Source: Cîteaux: Revue d'Histoire Cistercienne , 42., ( 1991): Pages 479 - 495.
Year of Publication: 1991.

48. Record Number: 11806
Author(s): Hotchkiss, Valerie R.
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Title : Disguise and Despair: The Life of Hildegund von Schonau [The author discusses the clashes between the biography and hagiography of a transvestite Cistercian nun. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Women as Protagonists and Poets in the German Middle Ages: An Anthology of Feminist Approaches to Middle High German Literature. Edited by Albrecht Classen . Kümmerle Verlag, 1991. Cîteaux: Revue d'Histoire Cistercienne , 42., ( 1991): Pages 29 - 41.
Year of Publication: 1991.

49. Record Number: 28191
Author(s): Morini, Carla
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Title : Una redazione sconosciuta della passio S. Agathæ Ms. Auxerre, Bibl. Mun., 127 (s. XII in.), f. 17r-19r [The legend of St. Agatha arrived in France from Spain during the Carolingian era. The “Passio S. Agathae” in the Auxerre manuscript has ties to the Old English version that circulated in England during the time of Aelfric. Both texts are found in Cisterican contexts. The article includes an edited text of the “Passio S. Agathae.” Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Analecta Bollandiana , 109., 3- 4 ( 1991): Pages 305 - 330.
Year of Publication: 1991.

50. Record Number: 11214
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Title : Why Found a Medieval Cistercian Nunnery? [Isabel de Aubigny, Countess of Arundel, was a noble-born English woman who established a Cistercian monastery in the thirteenth century. Isabel’s husband and many close relatives died when she was young, and she chose to remain a widow. After a series of additional family deaths, Isabel used the dowry she had been given by her father upon her marriage in order to establish a Cistercian nunnery. She had many motivations for founding the monastery: religious convictions (doing charity to benefit her soul in the afterlife), economic and political goals (disposing of estates), and social aspirations and responsibilities (maintaining family honor and increasing her social prestige). Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Medieval Prosopography , 12., 1 (Spring 1991): Pages 1 - 28.
Year of Publication: 1991.

51. Record Number: 30942
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Title : Apparition of the Virgin to St. Bernard

Source: Analecta Bollandiana , 109., 3- 4 ( 1991):
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52. Record Number: 45169
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Title : Nuns’ choir at Wienhausen Abbey

Source: Analecta Bollandiana , 109., 3- 4 ( 1991):
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