An examination of the roots of the Cistercian Order, founded in 1098, its development and waning, and the seventeenth-century reforms by the Abb de Ranc, which began the second flowering that continues today. Throughout, Merton illuminates the purposes of
An examination of the roots of the Cistercian Order, founded in 1098, its development and waning, and the seventeenth-century reforms by the Abb de Ranc, which began the second flowering that continues today. Throughout, Merton illuminates the purposes of monasticism. Index; photographs.
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