Cistercians and Cluniacs

Cistercians and Cluniacs PDF Author: Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux)
Publisher: Cistercian Publications Books
ISBN: 9780879071028
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This Apologia, composed by Bernard and approved by William, the Benedictine abbot of Saint-Thierry, excoriates monks black and white: Cistercians who had become slanderers, Cluniacs who had grown self-indulgent. Bernard's satirical wit spared no one who had lost sight of the monk's first duty, the love of God and the brethren.

Cistercians and Cluniacs

Cistercians and Cluniacs PDF Author: Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux)
Publisher: Cistercian Publications Books
ISBN: 9780879071028
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This Apologia, composed by Bernard and approved by William, the Benedictine abbot of Saint-Thierry, excoriates monks black and white: Cistercians who had become slanderers, Cluniacs who had grown self-indulgent. Bernard's satirical wit spared no one who had lost sight of the monk's first duty, the love of God and the brethren.

Cistercians and Cluniacs

Cistercians and Cluniacs PDF Author: Idung (of Prüfening.)
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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The Cistercians in the Middle Ages

The Cistercians in the Middle Ages PDF Author: Janet E. Burton
Publisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 184383667X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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The Cistercians (White Monks) were the most successful monastic experiment to emerge from the tumultuous intellectual and religious fervour of the 11th and 12th centuries. This book seeks to explore the phenomenon that was the Cistercian Order.

Cistercians and Cluniacs

Cistercians and Cluniacs PDF Author: Idung (of Prüfening.)
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Cistercians & Cluniacs

Cistercians & Cluniacs PDF Author: David Knowles
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cluniacs
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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A Companion to the Abbey of Cluny in the Middle Ages

A Companion to the Abbey of Cluny in the Middle Ages PDF Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004499237
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401

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"Founded in 910 by Duke William of Aquitaine, the abbey of Cluny rose to prominence in the eleventh century as the most influential and opulent center for monastic devotion in medieval Europe. While the twelfth century brought challenges, both internal and external, the Cluniacs showed remarkable adaptability in the changing religious climate of the high Middle Ages. Written by international experts representing a range of academic disciplines, the contributions to this volume examine the rich textual and material sources for Cluny's history, offering not only a thorough introduction to the distinctive character of Cluniac monasticism in the Middle Ages, but also the lineaments of a detailed research agenda for the next generation of historians. Contributors are: Isabelle Rosé, Steven Vanderputten, Marc Saurette, Denyse Riche, Susan Boynton, Anne Baud, Sébastien Barret, Robert Berkhofer III, Isabelle Cochelin, Michael Hänchen, Gert Melville, Eliana Magnani, Constance Bouchard, Benjamin Pohl, and Scott G. Bruce"--

Cistercians and Cluniacs

Cistercians and Cluniacs PDF Author: Idungus (Emmeramensis)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Monks
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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The Cistercians

The Cistercians PDF Author: Stephen Tobin
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Cistercian
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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The Cistercian movement swept across Europe in the 12th century, founding monastic movements as it went, and greatly influencing every area of religious and secular life. This is an account of the founding and development of the order, with descriptions of the monastic life. Architectural practice and the design precepts of the monasteries are considered, suggesting reasons why these beautiful, rural retreats have such an enduring appeal.

Idung Cistercians and Cluniacs a Case for Citeaux Idung of Prufning

Idung Cistercians and Cluniacs a Case for Citeaux Idung of Prufning PDF Author: Idung Prüfening
Publisher: Cistercian Publications Books
ISBN: 9780879072339
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Founded in 910 to return to the authentic monasticism of Saint Benedict, the abbey of Cluny led a revolution in the medieval Church. Wresting secular hands from control of monastic offices and finances, the great Burgundian monastery and its hundreds of daughter houses inspired eleventh-century churchmen to seize control of the Church from petty lords and outraged emperors. Powerful and respected, the Cluniac Order cast a long shadow over the European Church, but its very position of leadership brought prosperity into the cloister and, in its train, complacency. The Cistercians were founded in 1098 to revive the primitive observance of the Rule of Saint Benedict. Having experienced the worldly dangers threatening, even embraced by, the Black Monks of Cluny, the White Monks of Citeaux resolved to withdraw from, not to reform, the world. Their uncompromising asceticism attracted scores of young men, and soon the Cistercian Order outstripped the Cluniacs in pious prestige and personnel. A rivalry inevitably sprang up. Cluniacs, like Idung of Prufening, felt drawn to the more austere Cistercian way of life. Some Cistercians felt attracted to the less rigorous and liturgically richer life at Cluny. Each all too frequently felt obliged to justify his departure by commenting on the shortcomings of his former monastery. Gentle conciliatory spirits might call for charity from both White Monks and Black and the leaders of the two great Orders might develop a deep personal friendship, but ink and acrimony continued spasmodically to flow until the Cistercians, like their Cluniac brethren, succumbed to being respectable, comfortable fixtures of the medieval landscape.

The Cistercian Fathers and Their Monastic Theology

The Cistercian Fathers and Their Monastic Theology PDF Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: Liturgical Press
ISBN: 0879074817
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 640

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These conferences, presented by Thomas Merton to the novices at the Abbey of Gethsemani in 1963–1964, focus mainly on the life and writings of his great Cistercian predecessor, St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153). Guiding his students through Bernard’s Marian sermons, his treatise On the Love of God, his controversy with Peter Abelard, and above all his great series of sermons on the Song of Songs, Merton reveals why Bernard was the major religious and cultural figure in Europe during the first half of the twelfth century and why he has remained one of the most influential spiritual theologians of Western Christianity from his own day until the present. As James Finley writes in his preface to this volume, “Merton is teaching us in these notes how to be grateful and amazed that the ancient wisdom that shimmers and shines in the eloquent and beautiful things that mystics say is now flowing in our sincere desire to learn from God how to find our way to God.”