The Cistercian World

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book_author_name: 
Pauline Matarasso
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Paperback
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Penguin Books Ltd
published_date: 
29/04/1993
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9780140433562
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Books > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > Prose: non-fiction > Literary essays
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Pauline Matarasso|Paperback|Penguin Books Ltd|29/04/1993
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9780140433562
Book Description: 
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.

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