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INTELLECTUAL HORIZONS: WRITING, PREACHING AND CISTERCIAN SPIRITUALITY
Ist Teil von
The Cistercian Order in Medieval Europe, 2013, p.216-245
Ort / Verlag
Routledge
Erscheinungsjahr
2013
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However impressive the manifold economic activities of Cistercian monasteries might have been, they were never more than a means
to an end, a tool for ensuring that the monks would be able to lead
a contemplative life and maintain proper observance of the rules of the
Order. Far more important than working to create wealth were prayers,
contemplation, preaching and listening to the sermons, and also reading, writing and copying manuscripts. Contrary to popular assumption,
Cistercian monks were not anti-intellectual and were involved in a
broad range of activities which can be described as knowledge creation,
application and consumption. Much of that work – for example keeping
annalistic records, copying liturgical books and preaching – was a continuation of old monastic traditions, but the Cistercians made their own
distinctive contribution to Christo-centric and Marian spirituality and
also, in the later middle ages, to relatively new developments such as
university education. Even if white monks were hardly in the forefront
of new intellectual advances, they were skilled in making eective use of
the work of others for purposes close to their heart, such as preaching
and formation of the novices.