As far as I am aware, the only surviving written
work by Robert of Arbrissel, founder of Fontevraud, is a letter of moral advice
on "how to be a nun inwardly while functioning politically" which he wrote in
the first decade of the 12th C to Ermengarde of Anjou, Duchess (& later
Dowager-Duchess) of Brittany. A French translation together with the Latin
original has been published by de PETIGNY in Bulletin
de l'Ecole des Chartes (1854) - I have a p'copy of this.
What I am asking is: does anyone know of a study of
this work, either in a Life of Robert d'A, a history of F. or a more general
work on female spirituality in the 12th C ?
Brenda M. C.