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- Title
Confinement and exclusion in the monasteries of sixth-century Gaul.
- Authors
Dailey, E.T.
- Abstract
During the sixth century, some monasteries in Gaul began to strictly exclude women from areas within their grounds, while some convents began to take an uncompromising approach to the confinement of women, refusing to permit them to leave for any reason. Evidence for this appears in both monastic rules and ecclesiastical legislation, although it is clear that no single approach was applied consistently or ubiquitously. Indeed, as an analysis of the writings of Gregory of Tours demonstrates, there was a variety of approaches to the issue of secluding monks and nuns from the influences of the outside world, as well as different motives for adopting or resisting such developments as they took shape over the course of the century. This article attempts to reconstruct this variety of practice by comparing the rules and legislation with Gregory's works, with particular focus on the confinement and exclusion of women.
- Subjects
GAUL; GREGORY, Saint, Bishop of Tours, 538-594; MONASTIC rules; SOLITUDE; MONKS; NUNS; ECCLESIASTICAL law; MONASTERIES; RELIGION
- Publication
Early Medieval Europe, 2014, Vol 22, Issue 3, p304
- ISSN
0963-9462
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/emed.12063