1st Edition
Friendship and Faith: Cistercian Men, Women, and Their Stories, 1100-1250
By Brian Patrick McGuire
Copyright 2002
360 Pages
by
Routledge
360 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Written sources and Cistercian inspiration in Caesarius of Heisterbach; Friends and tales in the cloister: oral sources in Caesarius of Heisterbach’s Dialogus miraculorum; The Cistercians and the transformation of monastic friendships; A lost Clairvaux exemplum collection found: the Liber Visionum et Miraculorum compiled under Prior John of Clairvaux (1171-79); The Cistercians and the rise of the exemplum in early 13th-century France: a re-evaluation of Paris Bn Ms lat. 15912; Taking responsibility: medieval Cistercian abbots and monks as their brother’s keepers; Rebirth and responsibility: Cistercian stories from the late12th century; Index.
Biography
Brian Patrick McGuire
'Prof. McGuire is a proven scholar of medieval monasticism, and that is evident in this book... it deserves a place in every monastic library where research is carried on and scholarship undertaken. ' Cistercian Studies Quarterly '... a welcome addition to the realm of medieval monastic studies.' American Benedictine Review 'Although some of the articles are over twenty years old, their collection represents an indispensable worktool for those dealing with Cistercian exempla and Césaire d'Heisterbach in particular. Moreover, this book gives an idea of the everyday life of the Cistercians, their mentality and their religiosity from the end of the 12th century to the beginning of the 13th century. Reader access is made easy thanks to a very detailed thematic index.' Revue d’Histoire Ecclésiastique
