A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book
The Cistercian community of Tre Fontane during the Schism
Authors: Immonen, Teemu
Editors: Räsänen Marika, Salonen Kirsi
Publisher: Publications de l’École française de Rome
Publication year: 2025
Book title : Religious communities in Rome during the Great Western Schism
Series title: Collection de l'École française de Rome
Number in series: 626
First page : 241
Last page: 253
ISBN: 978-2-7283-1852-0
eISBN: 978-2-7283-1853-7
Publication's open availability at the time of reporting: Open Access
Publication channel's open availability : Open Access publication channel
Web address : https://books.openedition.org/efr/66309
This article discusses the fate of the religious community of Santi Vincenzo e Anastasio alle Tre Fontane in Rome during the Great Western Schism. It focuses on how the Schism affected three areas: 1) the administration of the abbey’s property, 2) the ability of the community to influence its own destiny and 3) the spiritual outlook of Tre Fontane. The vicissitudes of the abbey illustrate how little room for manoeuvre a religious institution may have had during these troubling years. In general, the fortunes of Tre Fontane were highly dependent on decisions made above the abbey. Its possessions were used as assets in a game that was played out at a higher level, between the popes of the different obediences, the king of Naples and the closest associates of both, the Roman baronial families.