Women and Monasticism in Medieval Europe

Download or read book Women and Monasticism in Medieval Europe written by Constance H Berman and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of documents, translated primarily from medieval Latin but occasionally from Old French, that shows how religious women and their patrons managed resources to make monastic communities - particularly a variety of Cistercian communities - work. The records help us reconstruct how nuns and abbesses of Cistercian communities in the thirteenth century organized and kept records, managed their properties, responded to attempts at usurpation, and balanced their lives between devotional practices, which were part of their cloistered world, and family and social responsibilities beyond the convent walls.