Author: Konrad (Abbot of Eberbach)
Publisher: Liturgical Press
ISBN: 0879071729
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 649
Book Description
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 Great Beginning of Citeaux
Author: E. Rozanne Elder
Publisher: Liturgical Press
ISBN: 0879077824
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 649
Book Description
In the closing decades of the twelfth century, the Cistercian Order had become an important ecclesiastical and economic power in Europe. 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. It was in this transitional period that Conrad of Eberbach gradually—between the 1180s and 1215—compiled the Exordium magnum cisterciense: The Great Beginning of Cîteaux. It is a book of history and lore, often with miraculous stories, meant to continue a great spiritual tradition, and it is also a book meant to justify and repair the Order. The Exordium magnum was in part an effort to provide a historical and formative context for those who were to be Cistercians in the thirteenth century. Conrad's combination of a historical sensibility and the edifying exempla makes the Exordium magnum a remarkably innovative book. Its unique combination of genres—narratio and exempla—is conceivable only within the intellectual world of the twelfth or early thirteenth centuries, before exempla collections came to be complied solely for edification or use in sermons. The Great Beginning of Cîteaux is a revealing book and an excellent place to begin more detailed study of the Cistercian Order between 1174 and the middle of the thirteenth century.
Publisher: Liturgical Press
ISBN: 0879077824
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 649
Book Description
In the closing decades of the twelfth century, the Cistercian Order had become an important ecclesiastical and economic power in Europe. 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. It was in this transitional period that Conrad of Eberbach gradually—between the 1180s and 1215—compiled the Exordium magnum cisterciense: The Great Beginning of Cîteaux. It is a book of history and lore, often with miraculous stories, meant to continue a great spiritual tradition, and it is also a book meant to justify and repair the Order. The Exordium magnum was in part an effort to provide a historical and formative context for those who were to be Cistercians in the thirteenth century. Conrad's combination of a historical sensibility and the edifying exempla makes the Exordium magnum a remarkably innovative book. Its unique combination of genres—narratio and exempla—is conceivable only within the intellectual world of the twelfth or early thirteenth centuries, before exempla collections came to be complied solely for edification or use in sermons. The Great Beginning of Cîteaux is a revealing book and an excellent place to begin more detailed study of the Cistercian Order between 1174 and the middle of the thirteenth century.
The Great Beginning of Cîteaux
Author: Konrad (Abbot of Eberbach)
Publisher: Liturgical Press
ISBN: 0879071729
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 649
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Liturgical Press
ISBN: 0879071729
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 649
Book Description
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 Cambridge Medieval History
Author: Henry Melvill Gwatkin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Middle Ages
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Middle Ages
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
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The Cambridge Medieval History: Contest of empire and papacy
Author: Henry Melville Gwatkin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Middle Ages
Languages : en
Pages : 1086
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Middle Ages
Languages : en
Pages : 1086
Book Description
Three Religious Rebels
Author: Father M. Raymond (O.C.S.O.)
Publisher:
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Category : Alberic, Saint, d. 1109
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alberic, Saint, d. 1109
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
The Cambridge Medieval History
A History of the Christian Church
Author: Williston Walker
Publisher:
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Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 662
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Publisher:
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Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 662
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The Architecture of Provence and the Riviera
Author: David MacGibbon
Publisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Publisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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The American Benedictine Review
The History of St. Dominic, Founder of the Friars Preachers
Author: Augusta Theodosia Drane
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian saints
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian saints
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description