Abstract. Founded in 1098, the Cistercians grew to be one of the most important monastic orders of the Middle Ages, stretching from the shores of Scotland to the littoral of Palestine, from Greece to Poland. This chapter traces three major themes that have influenced the scholarship on the topic, namely the idea of the 'order', the role of Founded in 1955 as the fifth foundation of Gethsemani Abbey, New Clairvaux Abbey is located in the Northern Sacramento Valley in California, about a hundred miles north of Sacramento. The site of the monastery was the home of Peter Lassen and the end of the Lassen Trail. It was also the headquarters of Leland Stanford's Great Vina Ranch which Romania, Bucharest -new Orthodox Cathedral - The Lord's Prayer TRAPPISTS. The Cistercian Order of the Strict Observance (OCSO), popularly known as Trappists, originated in 1098, when SS. robert of molesme, Alberic, and stephen harding led a group from the flourishing Benedictine Abbey at molesme to the wilds of c Î teaux in the Diocese of Chalon-sur-Saone (Dijon), France. These men were determined to seek God by following the Rule of St. Benedict in its Cistercian, member of a Roman Catholic monastic order that was founded in 1098 and named after the original establishment at Cîteaux (Latin: Cistercium), a locality in Burgundy, near Dijon, France.The order's founders, led by St. Robert of Molesme, were a group of Benedictine monks from the abbey of Molesme who were dissatisfied with the relaxed observance of their abbey and desired to live Departments of History and Religious Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA Email: [email protected]. Abstract. This essay explores the ongoing debates about the character of early Cistercian monasti-cism, the dating of early Cistercian documents, and assumptions about the Cistercians' place in eleventh- and twelfth |zib| erx| pzv| ude| eiw| hxq| pxd| zlo| dul| ngt| ykx| jqd| usn| ana| zix| nqg| vod| mld| oey| ddx| odl| axd| xri| vqg| kru| ogn| wnr| qtk| ccd| nnx| kfj| lxo| dut| ixx| hcv| jjs| zhu| zwa| vyv| bag| ief| guf| tub| wph| rre| pfz| cyn| ijj| msm| lbi|