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An understanding of this context is a necessary prelude to a discussion of the Cistercians and the Cistercian Order. All accounts of forms of monastic life in the medieval West, however, must begin with that great written monument, the Rule of St Benedict, the ‘little rule for beginners’ compiled by the Italian abbot in the first half of the sixth century for his monastery at Monte Cassino.
tends to be regional rather than vested in the perspective of the order. Female Cistercian communities are also more systematically studied in relation to the ideas of reform, manuscript culture, knowledge production, and spirituality.3 The debates over the origins of the Cistercian order that erupted in the
28. März 2018 · As the young order did not accept child oblates, Cistercian communities drew their population from adult men, a fact that probably contributed to the number of distinguished early Cistercian writers and preachers. Medieval authors, beginning with Bernard, the influential 12th-century abbot of Clairvaux, wrote numerous commentaries, sermons, and treatises explicating the spiritual life as ...
How are we to comprehend the Cistercian Order? How do we examine and represent a phenomenon which has existed for over 900 years and spread across the world, which has built monumental architecture and produced a wide array of texts, tilled land and cultivated minds, seen schisms and sought concord? How do we grasp the basic tenor, the ...
Cistercian Monasteries and the French Episcopate on the Eve of the Revolution, in: Analecta Cisterciensia 23, 1967, S. 66–114, 179–225; The Rise of the Cistercian Strict Observance in Seventeenth Century France, Washington, D.C., The Catholic University of America Press, 1968; The Cistercians.
28. Apr. 2016 · Book Review. The Cistercians were one of the most powerful and influential of the monastic orders to appear in the central Middle Ages, and they exerted considerable influence—social, economic, political, cultural—across the entirety of Western Europe, from Ireland to Slovenia, and from Scandinavia to the Iberian kingdoms; they ...
and Works in Cistercian Libraries in Great Britain ('')] and The Image and Likeness: The Augustinian Spirituality of William o f Saint Thierry (' + ). Nicolas Bell is Curator of Music Manuscripts, British Xibrary, Xondon. He is the author of The Las Huelg ...
