Canonici Albi et Moniales’

In contrast with recent assertions that the term ‘double house’ is both anachronistic and dysfunctional when used with reference to mixed communities of the twelfth century, this paper demonstrates that contemporary writers did in fact perceive a difference between religious houses that housed both men and women, and a small group of ‘houses of canons and nuns’. The absence of a more specific term was in itself an indication of the perceived novelty of such houses, which were seen as diverging both from earlier Anglo-Saxon mixed communities, and from other twelfth-century houses for men and women

Anachronism · Dysfunctional family · Novelty · Perception · Political science · Psychiatry · History · Law · Medieval Architecture and Archaeology · Medieval Literature and History · Psychology · Social Psychology

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