The White Nuns: Cistercian Abbeys for Women in Medieval France

ISBN-13: 9780812250107 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 368 str.

Constance Hoffman Berman

Opis

The White Nuns considers Cistercian women and the women who were their patrons in a clear-eyed reading of narrative texts and administrative records. In rejecting long-accepted misogynies and misreadings, Constance Hoffman Berman offers a robust model for historians writing against received traditions.