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The church in north-western Europe The map of the ecclesiastical provinces of north-western Europe puts larger than the Scottish ones; but in Italy (not shown) -particularly in the two Scottish provinces in their European context. Across Europe the Papal States and in Naples -there was a great concentration of there was a significant disparity of size in the provinces which arose much smaller provinces. for historical reasons. Many of the European provinces are very much o o kms 150 300 100 200 miles Venice /spalalO Ecclesiastical provinces in north·western Europe in the fifteenth century Arrouaise • • Premontre Some of the monastic and other orders -such as the (1120) Benedictines and the Franciscans -took their names from Paris their founder. Others took their name from the places • where they had originated or with which they had been • Val des Choux associated. The map plots these European centres with, in • Thiron (1109) some cases, their dates of foundation. It appears that there was no distinct order of Thiron, but that the Tironensian observance was an off-shoot of citeaux the Benedictine order. • (1098) The names of the orders or congration, with their place of origin are: . Cluny (910) Arrouaisian Arrouaise Carthusian Chartreuse Chartreuse Cistercian Citeaux • (1086) Cluniac Cluny Premonstratensian Premontre Tironensian Thiron Valliscaulian Val des Choux Monastic centres in Europe PGBM 339Transcribers who have contributed to this page.
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