Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 18095
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Gillette , Gertrude, O. S. B.
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  • Title: Radegund’s Monastery of Poitiers: the Rule and its Observance [When she founded her monastery, Radegund established a Rule which stated that a nun must not leave the monastery up to the time of her death. While the Rule was intended to limit the nuns’ contact with the outside world, the nuns actually had frequent interactions with outsiders. Daily life did not necessarily correspond to the Rule, and nuns could adapt their interpretation of the Rule to suit special circumstances or to serve their own personal motivations. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
  • Source: Studia Patristica 25, ( 1993): Pages 381 - 387. Papers presented at the Eleventh International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 1991. Biblica et Apocrypha, Orientalia, Ascetica
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  • Article Type: Journal Article
  • Subject (See Also): Community Life Monastic Enclosure Monasticism Nuns Poitiers, Vienne, France- Convent of the Holy Cross Radegunde of Poitiers, Merovingian Queen, Saint Regula Women in Active Roles Women in Religion
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  • Geographic Area: France
  • Century: 6
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  • Year of Publication: 1993.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: Not Available