medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
From: "Ms Brenda M. Cook" <[log in to unmask]>
> The Religious House of St Eloi was originally an Abbey for Woman, founded by
St Eligius himself. In 1107 it was "Reformed", that is the nuns were booted
out ....The nuns were accused of Moral Turpitude, of having turned the nunnery
into a brordello no less ....The House was downgraded to a Priory and the nuns
were replaced with monks from St Peter Fossa.
that's my memory of it, as well.
it's all laid out in a quite magnificent article on "Paris in the time of
Abelard" by Robert Bautier, in
Abélard en son temps : actes du colloque international organisé à
l'occasion du 9e centenaire de la naissance de Pierre Abélard, 14-19 mai
1979. Paris : Belles lettres, 1981.
which is one of the best bits of historical writing i've ever read.
Bautier doesn't suggest it, but my take on the affair was that the Ladies of
St. Eloi were occupying some Prime Real Estate, just as the whole neighborhood
there on the Cit--tay was about to become Gentrified,
and they hadn't covered their backsides as well as they should have.
>(Can anyone point me to a good book / website about the archaeology of the
mediaeval Isle de la Cite ?)
there's a very good, older work on Gallo-Roman Paris
Félix Georges de Pachtere, Paris à l'époque gallo-romaine. Étude faite à
l'aide des papiers et des plans de Th. Vacquer. Paris, Imprimerie nationale,
1912. xlii, 192 p. illus., XVI pl., x (i.e. 12) plans (part fold.)
(a copy of which happens to be available from a bookseller on this list)
and there's something more recent on the city during the reign of Philip
Augustus.
but i can't think of anything specific on early 12th c. Paris.
c
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