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Berenice M. Kerr, Religious Life for Women C.1100-C.1350: Fontevraud in England, Oxford Historical Monographs (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999), xix + 299 pp. ISBN 0-19-820752-2. 45.00 [pounds sterling].
The development of the Order of Fontevrault was an unlikely success story: founded by an outspoken, chain-mail wearing, and unkempt religious enthusiast who was required by the church authorities to impose constraints upon his large and unruly company...
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