This book offers the first comprehensive history of the Order of
Tiron. As a unique survey of the Tironensian experience it sheds
new light on traditional assumptions of twelfth-century monastic
history. Previous sketches have been shaped by the life of the
founder, the Vita Bernardi, which depicts the forests of western
France teeming with holy men, and that self-image of hermit
preachers in the wilderness has been deeply influential in the
historiography of twelfth-century reform. Drawing from the latest
advances in the understanding of hagiography and institutional
memory, Thompson reinterprets key sources to offer a valuable
contribution to the history of monasticism. She outlines the rapid
dissemination of the Tironensian approach in the first thirty years
of its existence, its network of contacts with the lay elite and
the impact on the Tironensians of the successes of the Cistercians
and Mendicants.
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