Author : Konrad (Abbot of Eberbach)
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780879071721
The Great Beginning of Cîteaux by Konrad (Abbot of Eberbach) Pdf
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.
