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The Cistercian Evolution - The Invention of a Religious Order in Twelfth-Century Europe (Paperback)
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The Cistercian Evolution - The Invention of a Religious Order in Twelfth-Century Europe (Paperback)
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The Cistercian Evolution The Invention of a Religious Order in
Twelfth-Century Europe Constance Hoffman Berman "An extremely
important book, one that will redefine the ways we conceive of
medieval religiosity and politics."--"Virginia Quarterly Review" "A
significant contribution to the study of the history of monasticism
in the twelfth century."--"EHR" "Stimulating, controversial, and
compelling, Constance Berman's major revisions of early Cistercian
history, "The Cistercian Evolution," should be read by historians
of monasticism and will greatly interest scholars in the
institutional and religious history of the twelfth century as well
as those who study the experience of women in that period."--"The
Medieval Review" "An important and provocative book: important
because it challenges scholars to rethink a central medieval theme,
the creation and expansion of the Cistercian order in
twelfth-century Europe; provocative because it brazenly upends
received narratives, two generations of accumulated monastic
scholarship."--"Speculum" "This important work builds on and
continues Berman's solid, indeed splendid, scholarship on the
institutional history of the Cistercians in southern France. She
explores and rejects much traditional thinking in fields as diverse
as the supposed uniformity of Cistercian architecture and the
propagation of the order through colonization or 'apostolic
foundation, ' pointing out that much Cistercian expansion was by
incorporation of existing communities."--"Church History" "
Berman's] book changes our understanding of the early Cistercians.
It will shape our research for some time to come. Berman's
questioning of Cistercian documents, her new picture of Cistercian
growth, her warnings about reading thirteenth-century
administrative structures and ideas back on to the twelfth, and
especially, her insistence that we consider houses of both men and
women, make this book an important contribution to the history of
religious institutions in the central Middle Ages."--"The Catholic
Historical Review" 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 Citeaux. 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 Citeaux reshaped fact to build and administer one of
the most powerful and influential religious orders of the Middle
Ages. Constance Hoffman Berman is Professor of History at the
University of Iowa and the 1999 May Brodbeck Fellow in the
Humanities. The Middle Ages Series 2000 408 pages 6 x 9 ISBN
978-0-8122-2102-2 Paper $26.50s 17.50 World Rights History,
Religion Short copy: Reveals the true story behind the growth of
the Cistercian order.
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