The boundaries of charity
Subtitle: Cistercian culture and ecclesiastical reform, 1098-1180
By: Martha G. Newman.
Series: Figurae; Figurae (Stanford, Calif.)
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
Subjects: Cistercians -- Europe -- History.; Monasticism and religious orders -- Europe -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.; Church history -- 12th century.; Europe -- Church history -- 600-1500.
Description: "This work explores how twelfth-century Cistercian monks maintained their tradition of social withdrawal yet played a pivotal political role in the world outside their monasteries. It argues that the Cistercians' political behavior was neither a betrayal of their monastic ideal nor evidence of some inherent Cistercian paradox, but that such public involvement grew out of the monks' conception of their monastic life, notably the cluster of ideas associated with Christian love, or caritas."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-375) and index.