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Everyday Life at La Trappe under Armand-Jean de Rance, EPUB eBook

Everyday Life at La Trappe under Armand-Jean de Rance EPUB

Part of the Cistercian Studies Series series

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This is an annotated translation of the classicDescription de l'abbaye de La Trappe, the most important eye-witness account of life at the abbey of La Trappe under Armand-Jean de Rance. The work includesa mapshowing the physical layout of the abbey and detailed discussions of the monks' daily life and practice. It was written by Andre Felibien des Avaux for Jeanne de Schomberg, duchess of Liancourt, in 1671, with a new and enlarged edition being published in 1689. That is the edition translated here, with copious notes to help the reader appreciate Felibien's account.

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