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    of Sainte-Trinité (French: Abbaye de la Sainte-Trinité), better known as the Abbaye aux Dames, is a former nunnery in Caen, Normandy, now home to the...
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    Abbey of Saint-Étienne, also known as Abbaye aux Hommes ("Men's Abbey") by contrast with the Abbaye aux Dames ("Ladies' Abbey"), is a former Benedictine...
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    formerly the Abbaye aux Hommes (Men's Abbey). It was completed in 1063 and is dedicated to St Stephen. The current Hôtel de Ville (town hall) of Caen is built...
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    Matilda agreed to found two churches as penance: the Abbaye aux Hommes and the Abbaye aux Dames. Their marriage was by all accounts very happy and fruitful...
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  • Navarra consecrated. Near Caves (Pechersk Lavra) founded. 1059 – Abbaye aux Dames, Caen founded. c. 1060 Construction of the Baphuon in Yasodharapura, Khmer...
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    transverse ribs. The principal examples are those in the Abbaye-aux-Hommes and Abbaye-aux-Dames at Caen (which were probably the earliest examples of a construction...
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    monasteries are the Abbaye-aux-Hommes (or St Étienne) for men which was founded by William in about 1059, and the Abbaye aux Dames (or Sainte Trinité)...
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    Abbaye-aux-Dames (on the west side of the city), was founded by William's wife, Matilda of Flanders. Her tomb is located there. Both abbeys in Caen were...
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  • Navarra consecrated. Near Caves (Pechersk Lavra) founded. 1059 Abbaye aux Dames, Caen founded. Luoyang Bridge in China completed West Mebon, Angkor (c...
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  • 1130 Construction of Abbaye aux Dames, Caen, Normandy, completed (begun in 1062). Canterbury Cathedral, England, consecrated. Rochester Cathedral, England...
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    examples of sexpartite rib vaults are found at the Abbaye-aux-Hommes (begun 1066) and Abbaye-aux-Dames at Caen. It then appeared in Noyon Cathedral (begun 1131);...
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    representation, 16th century Russian icon of Holy Trinity Abbaye aux-dames Sainte-Trinité Caen, 1862 Early depiction from the Rabbula Gospels, 6th century...
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    tracked down in coeval buildings like the cathedral of Laon and the Abbaye aux Dames in Caen, both in Northern France, or the cathedral of Durham in England...
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  • Abbey (Abbaye Saint-Croix de Buis or Buix), nuns, Diocese of Saint-Flour (near Aurillac, Cantal) Caen (Calvados), Diocese of Bayeux: Abbaye aux Dames (Abbaye...
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    over their deaths, sent Corday and her younger sister to the Abbaye aux Dames convent in Caen, where the former had access to the abbey's library and first...
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    describes the building as an "old chapel". The Abbaye aux Dames owns the tithe of Dives. The Abbot of Caen collects tithes. He also collects tolls on captured...
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  • City “ALLIGA” SFER IK – Tolum, Mexico “Festival ]interstice[ 14” – Abbaye-Aux-Dames, Caen, France “STRP Festival” – Eindhoven, Netherlands “The XXII Triennale...
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    exterior Maulbronn Monastery lavatorium, interior Lavatorium at Abbaye aux Dames in Caen, France Christianity portal Cantharus (Christianity) Hygiene in...
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    are the Abbey of St. Stephen (Abbaye-aux-Hommes) and the Abbey of the Holy Trinity (Abbaye-aux-Dames), both founded at Caen by William the Conqueror (1029–87)...
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    Mondaye Abbey (French: Abbaye de Mondaye or Abbaye Saint-Martin de Mondaye) is a French Premonstratensian abbey in the Bessin countryside at Juaye-Mondaye...
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    Operation Charnwood (category Battle for Caen)
    command centre had been relocated from the Ardenne Abbey to Abbaye-aux-Dames in the centre of Caen. The 16th Luftwaffe Field Division was an inexperienced...
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  • at least one daughter, donating his lands at Granville to the Abbaye aux Dames in Caen when she became a nun there. In 1147, he was one of the few English...
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    rib vaults, used in both The Abbaye des Dames and the Abbaye des Hommes. The roof of the choir of the Abbaye des Dames was very high, eight meters, and...
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    sexpartite vaults at both the Saint-Étienne, (Abbaye-aux-Hommes) and Sainte-Trinité, (Abbaye-aux-Dames) at Caen, France, in the late 11th and early 12th centuries...
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    the city of Caen celebrates the festival of the electronical cultures called "Nordik Impakt" and the festival of Beauregard, just around Caen. The local...
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    Mérimée: Notice #PA00110460, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French) Abbaye du Mont-Saint-Michel - Centre des monuments nationaux Archived 2013-05-11...
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  • Église Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativité de Bernières-sur-Mer Bernières-sur-Mer 12th – 14th century church Mérimée Calvados Abbaye aux Dames Caen 11th – 12th century...
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    Trinity of Caen, Normandy, the 12th-century Norman church of which survives today as the Abbaye de Sainte-Trinité, also known as the Abbaye aux Dames ("Abbey...
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    l'église Notre-Dame-du-Vivier à Sées – PA00110945". monumentum.fr. "Ancien logis capitulaire à Sées – PA00110949". monumentum.fr. "Ancienne abbaye Saint-Martin"...
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    Normandy (R. Lepelley. Caen University Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE "Abbaye de Saint-André-de-Gouffern"...
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