WORK in PROGRESS

- Fontevraud, the site

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- Robert d'Arbrissel, the founder: a hermit trapped by his own success
-- the movement: a woman at the head of a mixed Order
-- four monasteries
-- the Abbess and her powers
-- the abbey and its protection

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- The Plantagenêts and Fontevraud

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- The Bourbons and Fontevraud

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- The Abbey in the XVIIIth century

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1 - Abbey Church
2 - Early Church
3 - Recumbent Figures
4 - Grand-MoOtier Cloister
5 - Chapter House
6 - Communal Hall
7 - Passage
8 - Refectory
9 - Kitchen, XVIth
10 - Romanesque kitchen
I I - Dormitory staircase
12 - Main dormitory
13 - Novices' quarters
14 - Saint Benedict courtyard
15 - Infirmary courtyard
16 - Saint Benedict Chapel
17 - Lower Doorway
18 - Chapel of the Calvary
19 - St Lazarus Church
20 - Chapter House
21 - Cloister
22 - Main staircase
23 - Wash-houses
24 - Abbey Palace
25 - Abbey Gallery
2E - Bourbon gardens
27 - Lodgings of the Daughters of France
28 - Upper Doorway
29 - Great outer courtyard
30 - Parlour of the Abbess
31 - Fanerie Stables
32 - Bakery yard 33 - Reception hall (Barracks, XlXth) 34 - Seneschal's office 35 - Secretariat 36 - Prison walls

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