The Cistercian World
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The Cistercian World
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2006-04-27
The Cistercian World written by and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-27 with Religion categories.
The Cistercian Order was born in Burgundy at the start of the twelfth century as a movement of radical renewal - an Order that survives to this day with the greater part of its written heritage preserved. This volume brings together a selection of its finest works, which speak powerfully across the centuries to modern readers. Writings by St Bernard of Clairvaux (c. 1090-1153) - including his letters, The Life of Malachy the Irishman, sermons on the Song of Songs and the sharply satirical Apologia for Abbot William - reveal him to be a highly individual and influential writer of the Middle Ages. Also included here are a charming description of Clairvaux, biographies of abbots and a series of exemplary stories, all drawing on the Scriptures to express intensely personal forms of monastic theology.
The Way Of Simplicity
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Author : Esther De Waal
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
The Way Of Simplicity written by Esther De Waal and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Religion categories.
The Cistercian Order In Medieval Europe
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Author : Emilia Jamroziak
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-06-22
The Cistercian Order In Medieval Europe written by Emilia Jamroziak and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-22 with History categories.
The Cistercian Order in Medieval Europe offers an accessible and engaging history of the Order from its beginnings in the twelfth century through to the early sixteenth century. Unlike most other existing volumes on this subject it gives a nuanced analysis of the late medieval Cistercian experience as well as the early years of the Order. Jamroziak argues that the story of the Cistercian Order in the Middle Ages was not one of a ‘Golden Age’ followed by decline, nor was the true ‘Cistercian spirit’ exclusively embedded in the early texts to remain unchanged for centuries. Instead she shows how the Order functioned and changed over time as an international organisation, held together by a novel 'management system'; from Estonia in the east to Portugal in the west, and from Norway to Italy. The ability to adapt and respond to these very different social and economic conditions is what made the Cistercians so successful. This book draws upon a wide range of primary sources, as well as scholarly literature in several languages, to explore the following key areas: the degree of centralisation versus local specificity how much the contact between monastic communities and lay people changed over time how the concept of reform was central to the Medieval history of the Cistercian Order This book will appeal to anyone interested in Medieval history and the Medieval Church more generally as well as those with a particular interest in monasticism.
The Great Beginning Of C Teaux
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Author : Konrad (Abbot of Eberbach)
language : en
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Release Date : 2012
The Great Beginning Of C Teaux written by Konrad (Abbot of Eberbach) and has been published by Liturgical Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Religion categories.
In the closing decades of the twelfth century the Cistercian Order found itself in a world rather different from the one in which it had been founded and began to thrive. The Order was justifiably proud of its achievements and unparalleled diffusion across Europe. It had become an important ecclesiastical and economic power in Europe and developed an institutional structure meant to sustain a large, widespread organization. Yet it had lost its influential spokesman, Bernard of Clairvaux, and as the century drew to a close, religious sensibilities were changing. The new mendicant orders, the Franciscans and the Dominicans, and the impulses they embodied, were to shift the center of gravity in Christian religious life for centuries to come.
The Cistercian Evolution
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Author : Constance H. Berman
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2000
The Cistercian Evolution written by Constance H. Berman and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Monasticism and religious orders categories.
Reveals the true story behind the growth of the Cistercian order.
The World Of Medieval Monasticism
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Author : Gert Melville
language : en
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Release Date : 2016-03-04
The World Of Medieval Monasticism written by Gert Melville and has been published by Liturgical Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-04 with Religion categories.
This book surveys the full panorama of ten centuries of Christian monastic life. It moves from the deserts of Egypt and the Frankish monasteries of early medieval Europe to the religious ruptures of the eleventh and twelfth centuries and the reforms of the later Middle Ages. Throughout that story the book balances a rich sense of detail with a broader synthetic view. It presents the history of religious life and its orders as a complex braid woven from multiple strands: individual and community, spirit and institution, rule and custom, church and world. The result is a synthesis that places religious life at the center of European history and presents its institutions as key catalysts of Europe’s move toward modernity.
The Cambridge Companion To The Cistercian Order
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Author : Mette Birkedal Bruun
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-11-22
The Cambridge Companion To The Cistercian Order written by Mette Birkedal Bruun and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-22 with Religion categories.
This volume presents the composite character of the Cistercian Order in its unity and diversity, detailing the white monks' history from the Middle Ages to the present day. It charts the geographical spread of the Order from Burgundy to the peripheries of medieval Europe, examining key topics such as convents, liturgy, art, agriculture, spiritual life and education, providing an insight into Bernard of Clairvaux's life, work and sense of self, as well as the lives of other key Cistercian figures. This Companion offers an accessible synthesis of contemporary scholarship on the Order's interaction with the extramural world and its participation in, and contribution to, the cultural, economical and political climate of medieval Europe and beyond. The discussion contributes to the history of religious orders, and will be useful to those studying the twelfth-century renaissance, the apostolic movement and the role of religious life in medieval society.
The Cistercian Arts
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Author : Roberto Cassanelli
language : en
Publisher: McGill Queens Univ
Release Date : 2014
The Cistercian Arts written by Roberto Cassanelli and has been published by McGill Queens Univ this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Art categories.
An exquisitely illustrated study of the spiritual and cultural aspects of the Cistercian world.
The Cistercian Evolution
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Author : Constance Hoffman Berman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
The Cistercian Evolution written by Constance Hoffman Berman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
According to the received history, the Cistercian order was founded in Cîteaux, France, in 1098 by a group of Benedictine monks who wished for a stricter community. They sought a monastic life that called for extreme asceticism, rejection of feudal revenues, and manual labor for monks. Their third leader, Stephen Harding, issued a constitution, the Carta Caritatis, that called for the uniformity of custom in all Cistercian monasteries and the establishment of an annual general chapter meeting at Cîteaux. The Cistercian order grew phenomenally in the mid-twelfth century, reaching beyond France to Portugal in the west, Sweden in the north, and the eastern Mediterranean, ostensibly through a process of apostolic gestation, whereby members of a motherhouse would go forth to establish a new house. The abbey at Clairvaux, founded by Bernard in 1115, was alone responsible for founding 68 of the 338 Cistercian abbeys in existence by 1153. But this well-established view of a centrally organized order whose founders envisioned the shape and form of a religious order at its prime is not borne out in the historical record. Through an investigation of early Cistercian documents, Constance Hoffman Berman proves that no reliable reference to Stephen's Carta Caritatis appears before the mid-twelfth century, and that the document is more likely to date from 1165 than from 1119. The implications of this fact are profound. Instead of being a charter by which more than 300 Cistercian houses were set up by a central authority, the document becomes a means of bringing under centralized administrative control a large number of loosely affiliated and already existing monastic houses of monks as well as nuns who shared Cistercian customs. The likely reason for this administrative structuring was to check the influence of the overdominant house of Clairvaux, which threatened the authority of Cîteaux through Bernard's highly successful creation of new monastic communities. For centuries the growth of the Cistercian order has been presented as a spontaneous spirituality that swept western Europe through the power of the first house at Cîteaux. Berman suggests instead that the creation of the religious order was a collaborative activity, less driven by centralized institutions; its formation was intended to solve practical problems about monastic administration. With the publication of The Cistercian Evolution, for the first time the mechanisms are revealed by which the monks of Cîteaux reshaped fact to build and administer one of the most powerful and influential religious orders of the Middle Ages.
The Life Of St Stephen Harding
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Author : J. B. Dalgairns
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-06
The Life Of St Stephen Harding written by J. B. Dalgairns and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06 with categories.
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