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  • Published: 24 March 1993
  • ISBN: 9780140433562
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $38.00
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The Cistercian World

Monastic Writings of the Twelfth Century





The Cistercian Order was born in Burgundy at the start of the twelfth century as a movement of radical renewal - an Order that survives to this day with the greater part of its written heritage preserved. This volume brings together a selection of its finest works, which speak powerfully across the centuries to modern readers. Writings by St Bernard of Clairvaux (c. 1090-1153) - including his letters, The Life of Malachy the Irishman, sermons on the Song of Songs and the sharply satirical Apologia for Abbot William - reveal him to be a highly individual and influential writer of the Middle Ages. Also included here are a charming description of Clairvaux, biographies of abbots and a series of exemplary stories, all drawing on the Scriptures to express intensely personal forms of monastic theology.

  • Published: 24 March 1993
  • ISBN: 9780140433562
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $38.00
Categories:

About the author

Anonymus

Born in the north of England, the author of THE BOY WHO SAW TRUE chose to remain anonymous and would only allow his diary to appear several years after his death, with the stipulation that the original spellings were to remain and some of the names be changed.
His editor Cyril Scott enjoyed a two-fold career as a musical composer and a writer on the occult and other related matters.

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