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The Bonds of Charity: The Special Cares of Cistercian Nuns Get access

Anne E. Lester
in Creating Cistercian Nuns: The Women's Religious Movement and Its Reform in Thirteenth-Century Champagne
Published: 18 November 2011
... to the nunneries, they did so with the double aim of reforming these institutions along monastic lines and institutionalizing the ideal of apostolic charity as outlined in the conciliar degrees. This practical connection had a deep spiritual significance based on the complex and often competing religious meanings...