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Chris,
It's referred to in many places, but I quote from the very much missed Jo
Ann McNamara's book,
Sisters in Arms: Catholic nuns through two millennia
p. 217:
“When Abbot Hugh founded Marcigny in 1056, he provided for no abbess. Her
place (the seat of the
hundredth sister) was delegated to the Virgin Mary.”
But I think your point that just because this is so, that is, that there
was no abbess, does not mean that
is the reason she was called a prioress. I am corrected. I have read that
that was the case, but cannot
give a proper souce. Your reasoning is doubtless correct, that this was
created as a Cluniac priory with
everything that that would mean in terms of hierarchy.
You will note that she has the founding as 1056; others have it as 1054 and
a few as 1055.
Judith
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From: Christopher Crockett [log in to unmask]
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:36:02 -0400
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Subject: Re: [M-R] female priories
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> The head of the priory of Marcigny (founded in 1054) was always referred
to
as a prioress. The ostensible reason was that the abbess was the Virgin
Mary,
at least that was the reason given in some accounts. There were to be 99
women, and the hundredth, the Virgin, the abbess.
> Judith Rosenberg
what is your source for this, Judith?
does this mean that the abbot of male Cluniac priories ("abbot" of a
priory??)
was JC?
c
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