Women and Monasticism in Medieval Europe: Sisters and Patrons of the Cistercian Reform (Documents of Practice Series)

A selection of documents, translated primarily from medieval Latin but occasionally from Old French, that show 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.Women and Monasticism in Medieval Europe: Sisters and Patrons of the Cistercian Reform (Documents of Practice Series), with ISBN 9781580440363 and ISBN 1580440363.