Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. PART I. WERE THERE CISTERCIAN NUNS IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE?
5. Chapter 1. Reform Monasticism and Cistercian Nuns in Western Europe 3
6. Chapter 2. Visitation of Nuns and Their Regularization 18
7. Chapter 3. Cistercian Nuns and the Order’s Economic Practices 31
8. PART II. CISTERCIAN NUNS IN THE ECCLESIASTICAL PROVINCE OF SENS
9. Chapter 4. Women Regents, Cistercian Nuns, and Feudal Crisis: Clairets, Villiers, Voisins, and Port-Royal 49
10. Chapter 5. Cistercian Nuns and the Great Heiresses of Chartres, Blois, and Auxerre 73
11. Chapter 6. Blanche of Castile (1188–1252) and Cistercian Abbeys for Nuns 100
12. Chapter 7. Saint-Antoine-des-Champs Outside Paris 150
13. Chapter 8. Nuns and Viticulture in Champagne 191
14. PART III. COMPARISONS AND CONCLUSIONS
15. Chapter 9. Cistercian Nuns and Their Predecessors 223
16. Appendix 1. Ad Medium, Amortissement, Augmented Rents, Measures, Money, Names 237
17. Appendix 2. The Evidence: Cistercian Nuns’ Charters and Charter Books 241
18. Appendix 3. Specific Charters and Other Materials for This Study 244
19. Appendix 4. Size Limits of Abbeys for Cistercian and Other Nuns 246
20. Appendix 5. Numbers of Cistercian Nuns’ Houses According to Selected Historians 248
21. Notes 251
22. Bibliography 311
23. Index 337
24. Acknowledgments 343