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From the Cloister to the State: Fontevraud and the Making of Bourbon France, 1642-1100 book cover

1st Edition

From the Cloister to the State Fontevraud and the Making of Bourbon France, 1642-1100

By Annalena Müller Copyright 2021
286 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

286 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

286 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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From the Cloister to the State examines the French order of Fontevraud, one of the largest monastic networks under female leadership in medieval and early modern Europe. Founded in 1100 and comprised of both monks and nuns, the order had grown to consist of at least seventy-eight priories by the late Middle Ages. Endowed with vast territorial possessions throughout western France, Fontevraud... Read more

Introduction

Part I: Re-shaping the Myth

1. 1642 or: The Making of Abbatial Absolutism

2. Robert of Arbrissel Revisited

3. Establishing Fontevraud, c. 1001-1149

Part II: Fontevraud and the Making of Bourbon France

4. From a Monastic Network in Decline to a Geopolitical Asset, c. 1150-1457

5. Religious Geopolitics and Geopolitical Religion - Fontevraud in a Changing World

Part III: Forming and Re-Forming Fontevraud

6. Revising the Rule and Early Reform (1457-1491)

7. Re-Forming Fontevraud (1503-1534)

8. Re-Building Fontevraud

Conclusion

Biography

Annalena Müller holds a Master's degree from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and a PhD from Yale University. She works at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, where she is the recipient of a Swiss National Science Foundation Ambizione Grant.

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