Cistercians, Heresy, and Crusade in Occitania, 1145-1229
Author | : Beverly Mayne Kienzle |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 190315300X |
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"The present book examines this important but little-studied aspect of Cistercian history to probe how and why the Order undertook endeavours that drew the monks outside their monastic vocation. The analysis of texts about the preaching campaigns, and of their contexts, seeks to retrieve the role of preaching and to reconstruct what was preached in the light of its historical and specifically monastic context. Monastic texts and their contexts furnish the keys to understanding how medieval monastic authors perceived heresy, preached, and wrote against it."--BOOK JACKET.