TY  - BOOK
AU  - Venarde,Bruce L.
TI  - Women's monasticism and medieval society: nunneries in France and England, 890-1215 
SN  - 9781501717246
AV  - BX4220.E85 V46 1997eb
U1  - 271/.9/00420902 22
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Convents
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - Monasticism and religious orders for women
KW  - Middle Ages, 600-1500
KW  - Monachisme et ordres religieux féminins
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 600-1500 (Moyen Âge)
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Institutions & Organizations
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Monasticism
KW  - fast
KW  - Middle Ages
KW  - Nonnen
KW  - gtt
KW  - Vrouwenkloosters
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-233) and indexes; The expansion of female monasticism in the Central Middle Ages -- The old-fashioned way: Foundations in the tenth and eleventh centuries -- Nunneries in the Age of Change, circa 1080-circa 1170 -- Social and economic contexts in the eleventh and twelfth centuries -- The end of an era, circa 1170-circa 1215
N2  - "In this innovative and engaging work, Bruce L. Venarde uncovers a largely unknown story of women's religious lives and puts female monasticism in the mainstream of medieval ecclesiastical history. Venarde deftly interweaves narrative and statistical data to describe in broad historical context the multiplication of French and English nunneries during the central Middle Ages."--Jacket
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