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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?
Apr 28, 2016 · 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 also participated in the ...
- K. Sykes
- 2016
Founded in 1098, the Cistercians grew to be one of the most important monastic orders of the Middle Ages, stretching from the shores of Scotland to the littoral of Palestine, from Greece to Poland. This chapter traces three major themes that have influenced the scholarship on the topic, namely the idea of the ‘order’, the role of women ...
Part I (pp. 1-224 of this very readable work is a synthetic, chronological survey in sixteen chapters of this great 600astic Order from its beginnings at Meaux in 1098 to the reforms introduced in the last decade. The first chapter is an historical introduction, brief but excellent, on the eleventh-century 600astic reforms.
Mar 28, 2018 · Two chapters explain Cistercians as the first true monastic order, with communities independent in life but linked through filiation and legislative authority. Vogüé, Adalbert de. A Critical Study of the Rule of Saint Benedict. Vol. 1. Translated by Colleen Maura McGrane. New York: New City, 2013.
THE CISTERCIAN ORDER. This volume presents the composite character of the Cistercian Order in its unity and diversity, detailing the White Monks9 history from the Middle Ages to the present day.
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Over the half century that followed the way of life that developed there spread to all parts of Christendom, and the Cistercian Order became a powerful congregation. This book seeks to explore the dynamics of the phenomenon that was the Cistercian Order.
