The Early Cistercian Nuns 1098 - 1350

by David H Williams

The emergence of nuns as members or associates or followers of the Cistercian Order is shrouded in uncertainty. They are not mentioned in the earliest document of the White Monks, the Exordium Parvum, compiled by perhaps 1150, nor in the first codification of Cistercian statutes in 1202. Yet, by the year 1200, in France alone some one hundred nunneries claimed to be Cistercian. From the early to mid-thirteenth century there was to be a rapid growth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 085244995X
• ISBN13: 9780852449950
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Gracewing
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"