1st Edition
The Cistercian Cult of Saints as a Treasury of the Living Past in the Later Middle Ages
Introduction 1. The View from the Top: the General Chapter and the Cult of Saints across the Order in the Later Middle Ages 2. Bernard of Clairvaux: from the “founding father” to the “embodiment of the Order” 3. Locality and belonging: Cistercian communities in Bavaria and Franconia in the later middle ages 4. The ties that bind: Altenberg Abbey and its daughter houses in the later middle ages Conclusion
Biography
Emilia Jamroziak is a specialist in medieval religious and cultural history and a professor in the Faculty of History at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. Prior to returning to Poland in 2025, she spent many years at the University of Leeds, UK, where she was Professor of Medieval Religious History and helped build one of the leading centres for medieval studies. She continues her association with Leeds as an honourary visiting research fellow. Her research focuses on the Cistercian Order and on how monastic communities shaped and were shaped by the societies around them. She is the author of The Cistercian Order in Medieval Europe, 1090–1500 (Routledge, 2013) and several other monographs, studies, and edited collections on medieval monastic history.
