Revision of the author's The monastic world, 1000-1300 (1974)--Pref.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-339) and index.
I. The monastic tradition: 1. Prelude -- 2. The Rule of St. Benedict -- 3. The formation of the monastic tradition -- 4. Life, work and prayer -- 5. The hermits -- 6. The cloister and the world -- 7. The monastic contribution to the Twelfth Century Renaissance -- II. New orders: 8. The Augustinian canons -- 9. The Cistercians -- 10. The Knights -- 11. On Abbesses and Prioresses -- 12. St. Norbert and St. Francis -- The Premonstratensians and the Friars -- III. Gathering the threads: 13. Three visits -- 14. 1300: the monastic map of Europe -- 15. Epilogue: 1300 to the present.
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Among the most beautiful, spiritual and evocative structures in stone ever built are the medieval monasteries of Europe. The importance of the monastic world, its ideas and ideals, to the rise of Western civilization is second to none. The age of the cloister offers a fascinating overview of the birth and flowering of monasticism, and describes in great detail the everyday monastic life and the faith, literature, economy, architecture and culture of countless monks, hermits, nuns, canons, friars and lay men and women spanning hundreds of years.
Monastic world, 1000-1300
Monasticism and religious orders-- History-- Middle Ages, 600-1500.