New Monastery
Texts and Studies on the Earliest Cistercians
New Monastery
Texts and Studies on the Earliest Cistercians
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Publisher: Liturgical Press
ISBN: 9780879073602
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 01/07/2000
Width: 14 cm
Height: 21.6 cm
In 1098 a small group of benedictine monks left with their abbot to settle in the wilderness. There, at a place called Cîteaux, they built a 'New Monastery' where they hoped to follow the Rule of Saint Benedict to the letter.
Selections from twelfth-century documents trace the steps these monks took in founding the New Monastery and, after a few years, in founding other monasteries on the same pattern. From small, uncertain beginnings, their success was stunning. Within fifty years, more than three hundred cistercian monasteries existed in Europe. Today the cistercian tradition is continued by monks and nuns around the world.
Along with selected medieval documents this volume includes reflections by Cistercians and scholars on the motives and the ideals of the first founders of Cîteaux.
Selections from twelfth-century documents trace the steps these monks took in founding the New Monastery and, after a few years, in founding other monasteries on the same pattern. From small, uncertain beginnings, their success was stunning. Within fifty years, more than three hundred cistercian monasteries existed in Europe. Today the cistercian tradition is continued by monks and nuns around the world.
Along with selected medieval documents this volume includes reflections by Cistercians and scholars on the motives and the ideals of the first founders of Cîteaux.
Table of Contents
Exordium cistercii: The Beginnings of The New Monastery 9
Cîteaux is Given to the New Monastery 11
Pater ipsius monasterii: Robert of Molesme 13
Abbot Robert and the Monks of Molesme Discuss Observances 19
Robert Returns to Molesme 26
The Archbishop of Lyon releases Robert from the New Monastery 29
Viduata suo pastore: Alberic Becomes Abbot of the New Monastery 31
Viduata sui pastore: A Brief Note 35
M. Chrysogonus Waddell ocso
Eulogy for Abbot Alberic 45
Amator regulae et loci: Stephen Harding Becomes Abbot 47
The New Monastery under Stephen Harding 51
'Quidem frater Stephanus nomine, anglicus natione' 57
H. E. J. Cowdrey
Abbot Stephan Reforms the Hymnal 76
The Molesme - Cistercian Hymnal 76
M. Chrysogonus Waddell ocso
A Letter to the Monks of Sherborne 88
An Exegesis of A Letter by St Stephen Harding 90
M. Chrysogonus Waddell ocso
Rectitudo regulae: The Straight Path of the Rule 125
The Straint Path: Liturgical–Patristic Resonances 128
M. Chrysogonus Waddell ocso
The Biblical Spirituality of the Founders of Cîteaux 145
Denis Farkasfalvy, O.Cist.
Successoribus nostris: The Cistercian Inheritance 159
Liturgical–patristic Resonances of the Prologue to the Exordium Parvum 162
M. Chrysogonus Waddell ocso
The First Daughter Houses of Cîteaux 187
The Earliest Churches of the Cistercian Order 195
Jean Owens Schaeffer
The First Cistercian Nuns 209
The Abbey of Tart 211
Elizabeth Connor ocso
Ideals and Reality in Early Cistercian Life and Legislation 219
Louis J. Lekai, O.Cist.
Abbreviation 217
Further Reading 238
Acknowledgments 239
Exordium cistercii: The Beginnings of The New Monastery 9
Cîteaux is Given to the New Monastery 11
Pater ipsius monasterii: Robert of Molesme 13
Abbot Robert and the Monks of Molesme Discuss Observances 19
Robert Returns to Molesme 26
The Archbishop of Lyon releases Robert from the New Monastery 29
Viduata suo pastore: Alberic Becomes Abbot of the New Monastery 31
Viduata sui pastore: A Brief Note 35
M. Chrysogonus Waddell ocso
Eulogy for Abbot Alberic 45
Amator regulae et loci: Stephen Harding Becomes Abbot 47
The New Monastery under Stephen Harding 51
'Quidem frater Stephanus nomine, anglicus natione' 57
H. E. J. Cowdrey
Abbot Stephan Reforms the Hymnal 76
The Molesme - Cistercian Hymnal 76
M. Chrysogonus Waddell ocso
A Letter to the Monks of Sherborne 88
An Exegesis of A Letter by St Stephen Harding 90
M. Chrysogonus Waddell ocso
Rectitudo regulae: The Straight Path of the Rule 125
The Straint Path: Liturgical–Patristic Resonances 128
M. Chrysogonus Waddell ocso
The Biblical Spirituality of the Founders of Cîteaux 145
Denis Farkasfalvy, O.Cist.
Successoribus nostris: The Cistercian Inheritance 159
Liturgical–patristic Resonances of the Prologue to the Exordium Parvum 162
M. Chrysogonus Waddell ocso
The First Daughter Houses of Cîteaux 187
The Earliest Churches of the Cistercian Order 195
Jean Owens Schaeffer
The First Cistercian Nuns 209
The Abbey of Tart 211
Elizabeth Connor ocso
Ideals and Reality in Early Cistercian Life and Legislation 219
Louis J. Lekai, O.Cist.
Abbreviation 217
Further Reading 238
Acknowledgments 239
