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Cistercian Stories for Nuns and Monks - The Sacramental Imagination of Engelhard of Langheim (Hardcover)
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Cistercian Stories for Nuns and Monks - The Sacramental Imagination of Engelhard of Langheim (Hardcover)
Series: The Middle Ages Series
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Around the year 1200, the Cistercian Engelhard of Langheim
dedicated a collection of monastic stories to a community of
religious women. Martha G. Newman explores how this largely
unedited collection of tales about Cistercian monks illuminates the
religiosity of Cistercian nuns. As did other Cistercian
storytellers, Engelhard recorded the miracles and visions of the
order's illustrious figures, but he wrote from Franconia, in modern
Germany, rather than the Cistercian heartland. His extant texts
reflect his interactions with non-Cistercian monasteries and with
Langheim's patrons rather than celebrating Bernard of Clairvaux.
Engelhard was conservative, interested in maintaining traditional
Cistercian patterns of thought. Nonetheless, by offering to women a
collection of narratives that explore the oral qualities of texts,
the nature of sight, and the efficacy of sacraments, Engelhard
articulated a distinctive response to the social and intellectual
changes of his period. In analyzing Engelhard's stories, Newman
uncovers an understudied monastic culture that resisted the growing
emphasis on the priestly administration of the sacraments and the
hardening of gender distinctions. Engelhard assumed that monks and
nuns shared similar interests and concerns, and he addressed his
audiences as if they occupied a space neither fully sacerdotal nor
completely lay, neither scholastic nor unlearned, and neither
solely male nor only female. His exemplary narratives depict the
sacramental value of everyday objects and behaviors whose efficacy
relied more on individual spiritual formation than on sacerdotal
action. By encouraging nuns and monks to imagine connections
between heaven and earth, Engelhard taught faith as a learned
disposition. Newman's study demonstrates that scholastic questions
about signs, sacraments, and sight emerged in a narrative form
within late twelfth-century monastic communities.
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