Medieval Religious Women

John A. Nichols, Lillian Thomas Shank

Cistercian Publications, 1984 - Cistercian nuns - 443 pages

Contents

• Woman of Desire: 445
• Her Monastic Milieu and: 471
• DEDICATION ix: 482
• Introduction 3: 494
• A Study in: 497
• Mechtild: 509
• A Methodological: 525
• The Life of the Twelfth and ThirteenthCentury Nuns: 529
• PART THREE: 541
• Simplicity as a Principle of Reform in the Writings: 575
• The Abbeys of Las Huelgas and Tart and Their Filiations 29: 594
• ArmandJean de Rancé and FrançoiseAngelique: 599
• PART: 605
• Cistercian Nuns in Twelfth and ThirteenthCentury: 662
• The Sun Kings Wife and the Abbess: 675
• Spiritual Direction of Women at PortRoyal: 701
• Who Shall Find a Valiant Woman?: 751
• Cistercian Nuns Today: 769
• Epilogue: 780
• Symbols of Spiritual Motherhood: 787
• Introduction 203: 805
• Plary Abbey: 807

Bibliographic information

• Title: Medieval Religious Women; Cistercian studies series; Hidden Springs: Cistercian Monastic Women, Lillian Thomas Shank; Medieval Religious Women, Lillian Thomas Shank
• Editors: John A. Nichols, Lillian Thomas Shank
• Publisher: Cistercian Publications, 1984
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Jul 14, 2009
• ISBN: 0879076135, 9780879076139
• Length: 443 pages