Fontevrault looks back to her founder: reform and the attempts to canonize Robert of Arbrissel
The abbesses of Fontevrault recognized the work of their founder, Robert of Arbrissel, in a number of different ways. It has been suggested by modern scholars that the first abbess of the Order, Petronilla of Chemillé, was dissatisfied with the vita written by Baudry of Dol and commissioned a new on...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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1997
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Studies in church history
Year: 1997, Volume: 33, Pages: 361-377 |
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| Summary: | The abbesses of Fontevrault recognized the work of their founder, Robert of Arbrissel, in a number of different ways. It has been suggested by modern scholars that the first abbess of the Order, Petronilla of Chemillé, was dissatisfied with the vita written by Baudry of Dol and commissioned a new one from a Fontevrist canon who has long been thought to have been Robert’s personal chaplain. However this second vita may have been produced for other reasons, and it may not have been originally written to further the cause of his canonization. |
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| ISSN: | 2059-0644 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Studies in church history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0424208400013346 |
