Exordium Magnum - Conradus Eberbacensis; B. Griesser
KORTE INHOUD
?Almost anyone who has worked in the religious history of the twelfth century or who is interested in medieval monastic history would agree that the ?Exordium magnum Cisterciense? is an interesting and important text. It is one of the most weighty witnesses to the origin and the formative years of the Cistercian Order; it gives us many valuable and significant insights both into the events surrounding the Order?s birth and into the mentality of the early Cistercians; it includes a multitude of exempla, together with miscellaneous biographical and hagiographical notes of its rather rambling and disjointed narrative and it preserves the texts of several significant documents, as well as a great deal of scattered information about such diverse matters as the twelfth-century University of Paris and the Second Crusade. (?) The present edition [the first to appear since 1660 - ND] is therefore most welcome and marks a distinct improvement on those hitherto available. Father Griesser has collated some forty-two manu...
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1994Uitgever: Brepols Publishers506 paginasTaal: LatijnISBN-10: 250304381XISBN-13: 9782503043814Koop dit boek tweedehands
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