Located in the Bourgogne Franche-Comté region in the Côte-d’Or Department in the commune of Marmagne, the Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay was founded in 1119 by St Bernard in a marshy valley of Bourgogne ...

The early Cistercians committed themselves to a unique form of austerity by distancing their abbeys from large existing settlements and by relying on their own manual labour and self-sufficiency. The ...

The site was originally a Savigniac foundation out of Normandy and was later seized by the Cistercian order from Burgundy and Byland Abbey took responsibility for it. The abbey was founded in 1145 ...

In fact, in Yorkshire where there were eight male Cistercian abbeys, there were 12 cistercian nunneries and their prayers were esteemed by people in the locality. "Sister Gertrude dies and a few ...

It sits atop the ruins of a Cistercian abbey dating to the 14th century, as well as a burial ground from the Black Death. And from the 16th century to the early 18th century, it was a supply yard ...

Holdings in this field range from the 11th century to the 21st. Notable medieval manuscripts include the charters of the Cistercian abbey at Kingswood and the Cobden Book of Hours. Monuments of ...

Until recently, the chic set of the 16th arrondissement — the ‘Belgravia’ of Paris — escaped the city by decamping to Versailles ( bien sûr ), the Loire Valley or to the coastal communities of ...

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