Cistercians In The Late Middle Ages

Author : Emilia Jamroziak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317341895

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The Cistercian Order in Medieval Europe by Emilia Jamroziak Pdf

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.

Author : Ellen Rozanne Elder
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015049029856

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Cistercians in the Late Middle Ages by Ellen Rozanne Elder Pdf

Author : Janet E. Burton,Julie Kerr
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843836674

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The Cistercians in the Middle Ages by Janet E. Burton,Julie Kerr Pdf

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.

Author : David Henry Williams
Publisher : Gracewing
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0852443501

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The Cistercians in the Early Middle Ages by David Henry Williams Pdf

Author : Michael Carter
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Art, Medieval
ISBN : 2503581935

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The Art and Architecture of the Cistercians in Northern England, C.1300-1540 by Michael Carter Pdf

The Cistercian abbeys of northern England provide some of the finest monastic remains in all of Europe, and much has been written on their twelfth- and thirteenth-century architecture. The present study is the first in-depth analysis of the art and architecture of these northern houses and nunneries in the late Middle Ages, and questions many long-held opinions about the Order's perceived decline during the period c.1300-1540. Extensive building works were conducted between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries at well-known abbeys such as Byland, Fountains, Kirkstall, and Rievaulx, and also at lesser-known houses including Calder and Holm Cultram, and at many convents of Cistercian nuns. This study examines the motives of Cistercian patrons and the extent to which the Order continued to enjoy the benefaction of lay society. Featuring over a hundred illustrations and eight colour plates, this book demonstrates that the Cistercians remained at the forefront of late medieval artistic developments, and also shows how the Order expressed its identity in its visual and material cultures until the end of the Middle Ages.

Author : Jeremiah Francis O'Sullivan
Publisher : Irish Academic Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015008534847

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Studies in Medieval Cistercian History by Jeremiah Francis O'Sullivan Pdf

Enemies.--Hays, R. W. The Welsh monasteries and the Edwardian conquest.--Desmond L. A. The statute of Carlisle and the Cistercians, 1298-1369.--Telesca, W. J. The Cisterican dilemma at the close of the Middle Ages: Gallicanism or Rome.--Volz, C. Martin Luther's attitude toward Bernard of Clairvaux.--Bibliography of studies by Jeremiah F. O'Sullivan (p. 205).

Author : Gert Melville
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780879074999

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The World of Medieval Monasticism by Gert Melville Pdf

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.

Author : Stephen Tobin
Publisher : Overlook Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Architecture, Cistercian
ISBN : UCSD:31822021256516

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The Cistercians by Stephen Tobin Pdf

"Throughout Europe, some of the most arresting sites are Cistercian monasteries, where even the most jaded travelers are bewitched by their breathtaking beauty and simplicity. This stunningly photographed architectural study is the most complete visual record available. The feeling of serenity this architecture evokes pervades every cloister, refectory and chapter house with an almost magical sense of harmony." "Stephen Tobin gives a detailed and insightful account of the founding and development of the Cistercian Order, which swept across Europe in the twelfth century. His discussion of architectural practice and the precepts of design behind these enduring monasteries is invaluable; maps covering all of Europe, instructive tables and over too magnificent photographs detail all the male abbeys founded during the Middle Ages, highlighting their style and accessibility. An appendix provides useful information on those converted into hotels, guest houses or restaurants."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004305304

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The Art of Cistercian Persuasion in the Middle Ages and Beyond by Anonim Pdf

The articles in this collection offer an in-depth analysis of the Dialogus Miraculorum by the Cistercian Caesarius of Heisterbach (thirteenth century) and provide an insight into the theory and practice of Cistercian persuasion and Caesarius’s narrative theology.

Author : Constance Hoffman Berman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812200799

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The Cistercian Evolution by Constance Hoffman Berman Pdf

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.

Author : Constance H Berman
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781580445177

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Women and Monasticism in Medieval Europe by Constance H Berman Pdf

A selection of documents, translated primarily from medieval Latin but occasionally from Old French, that shows how religious women and their patrons managed resources to make monastic communities - particularly a variety of Cistercian communities - work. The records help us reconstruct how nuns and abbesses of Cistercian communities in the thirteenth century organized and kept records, managed their properties, responded to attempts at usurpation, and balanced their lives between devotional practices, which were part of their cloistered world, and family and social responsibilities beyond the convent walls.

Author : Mette Birkedal Bruun
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107001312

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The Cambridge Companion to the Cistercian Order by Mette Birkedal Bruun Pdf

Presents the Order's figureheads, practical life and spiritual horizon, and its contribution to medieval Europe's religious, cultural and political climate.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:731645918

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Studies in Medieval Cistercian History by Anonim Pdf

Author : Brian Patrick McGuire
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015055199296

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Friendship and Faith by Brian Patrick McGuire Pdf

In these articles Professor McGuire explores the riches of the Cistercian exemplum tradition. These texts are made up of brief stories, often with a miraculous content, which provided moral support for novices and monks in Cistercian abbeys all over Europe in the High Middle Ages. The Cistercians have been seen mainly in terms of their great writers like Bernard of Clairvaux and the impressive buildings they left behind. But Cistercian literature also provides us with more humble insights from daily life, shedding light on questions of sexuality, anger, depression, and bonds of friendship, also between monks and nuns. They bring a freshness of insight and immediate experience, and their seeming naivety lets us be aware of monks' commitment to each other in individual and community bonds. In Cistercian storytelling, the Gospel's message meets an historical context and bears witness to a transformation of Christian life and idealism, while at the same time allowing us precious insights into how ordinary men and women, not just monks and nuns, lived and thought.

Author : Andrew Abram
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843833864

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Monasteries and Society in the British Isles in the Later Middle Ages by Andrew Abram Pdf

In recent years there has been an increasing interest in the history of the numerous houses of monks, canons and nuns which existed in the medieval British Isles, considering them in their wider socio-cultural-economic context; historians are now questioning some of the older assumptions about monastic life in the later Middle Ages, and setting new approaches and new agenda. The present volume reflects these new trends. Its fifteen chapters assess diverse aspects of monastic history, focusing on the wide range of contacts which existed between religious communities and the laity in the later medieval British Isles, covering a range of different religious orders and houses. This period has often been considered to represent a general decline of the regular life; but on the contrary, the essays here demonstrate that there remained a rich monastic culture which, although different from that of earlier centuries, remained vibrant. CONTRIBUTORS: KAREN STOBER, JULIE KERR, EMILIA JAMROZIAK, MARTIN HEALE, COLMAN O CLABAIGH, ANDREW ABRAM, MICHAEL HICKS, JANET BURTON, KIMM PERKINS-CURRAN, JAMES CLARK, GLYN COPPACK, JENS ROHRKASTEN, SHEILA SWEETINBURGH, NICHOLAS ORME, CLAIRE CROSS