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Constance Berman presents an indispensable new collection of the
most influential and revisionist work to be done on religion in the
middle ages in the last couple of decades. Bringing together an
authoritative list of scholars from around the world, the book
provides a valuable service to students of religious history in
providing a compilation of the most important new work. Medieval
Religion: New Approaches is essential reading for all those who
study the middle ages, church history or religion.
Constance Berman presents an indispensable new collection of the
most influential and revisionist work to be done on religion in the
middle ages in the last couple of decades. Bringing together an
authoritative list of scholars from around the world, the book
provides a valuable service to students of religious history in
providing a compilation of the most important new work. " Medieval
Religion" is essential reading for all those who study the middle
ages, church history or religion.
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.
Modern studies of the religious reform movement of the central
Middle Ages have often relied on contemporary accounts penned by
Cistercian monks, who routinely exaggerated the importance of their
own institutions while paying scant attention to the remarkable
expansion of abbeys of Cistercian women. Yet by the end of the
thirteenth century, Constance Hoffman Berman contends, there were
more houses of Cistercian nuns across Europe than of monks. In The
White Nuns, she charts the stages in the nuns' gradual acceptance
by the abbots of the Cistercian Order's General Chapter and
describes the expansion of the nuns' communities and their
adaptation to a variety of economic circumstances in France and
throughout Europe. While some sought contemplative lives of prayer,
the ambition of many of these religious women was to serve the
poor, the sick, and the elderly. Focusing in particular on
Cistercian nuns' abbeys founded between 1190 and 1250 in the
northern French archdiocese of Sens, Berman reveals the frequency
with which communities of Cistercian nuns were founded by rich and
powerful women, including Queen Blanche of Castile, heiresses
Countess Matilda of Courtenay and Countess Isabelle of Chartres,
and esteemed ladies such as Agnes of Cressonessart. She shows how
these founders and early patrons assisted early abbesses, nuns, and
lay sisters by using written documents to secure rights and create
endowments, and it is on the records of their considerable economic
achievements that she centers her analysis. The White Nuns
considers Cistercian women and the women who were their patrons in
a clear-eyed reading of narrative texts in their contexts. It
challenges conventional scholarship that accepts the words of
medieval monastic writers as literal truth, as if they were written
without rhetorical skill, bias, or self-interest. In its
identification of long-accepted misogynies, its search for their
origins, and its struggle to reject such misreadings, The White
Nuns provides a robust model for historians writing against
received traditions.
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