The World of Medieval Monasticism · Its History and Forms of Life (Cistercian Studies) by Melville, Gert -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Coverpage Titlepage Copyright Dedication Contents Foreword by Giles Constable Preface List of Abbreviations Translator’s Note 1. The Beginnings

Retreat from the World The Establishment of Monastic Communities The First Monasteries in Europe

2. The Benedictine Rule and Its Longevity

Benedict as “Textual Trace” The Rule of Saint Benedict The Career of Benedict and His Rule The Second Benedict and the Reform of the Frankish Monasteries

3. The Flowering of the Benedictines

A New Beginning in Lotharingia Cluny: The Establishment of Monastic Liberty The “Cluniac Church”: A Congregation of Monasteries Ordo Cluniacensis Church for the World Monastic Life in Service of King and Nobility, Pope and Bishop

4. Return to the Desert

The New Hermits To Live by One’s Own Law Charismatic Preaching and Religious Movements A Return to the Institutions of the Church

5. The Regular Canons: The Clergy’s New Self-Understanding 6. The Cistercians: Collegiality Instead of Hierarchy

Robert’s Path from Molesme to Cîteaux and Back The Measure of the Pure Rule The Charter of Charity and the Invention of the “Order”

7. The Success of the Cistercian Model

8. Diversity and Competition 9. New Concepts of Belief

The Search for Religious Identity Beguines and Humiliati: A New Lay Piety “Holy Preachers” and “Lesser Brothers”

10. The Franciscans: A Mendicant Order with the Whole World as Its Monastery

Francis of Assisi and His Community The Legacy of Francis Clare of Assisi

11. The Dominicans: Holy Preaching and Pastoral Care

12. Transformations of Eremitical Life

The Carmelites: From the Mountain into the Cities The Augustinian Hermits

13. A New Chapter in the Story of the Vita Religiosa

The Three Ages of Salvation History Eremitical Congregations and the Work of Peter of Morrone Devotio Moderna The Revelations of Birgitta

14. Mendicant Orders in Conflict: Struggles over Poverty and Observance 15. Reformers and Reforms at the End of the Middle Ages

Reform from Above: Pope Benedict XII Reform from Below: The Rise of the Observants

16. A Look Back 17. Fundamental Structures of the Vita Religiosa in the Middle Ages

The Individual and the Community The Monastery and the Law Institutional Forms: Establishment and Preservation Constructing Particular Pasts Cloister and World Temporalia On the Search for God toward Knowledge of the World

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