Contents

pp vii-viii

Figures

pp ix-x

Contributors

pp xi-xiv

Preface

pp xv-xvi

Abbreviations

pp xvii-xviii

Introduction

pp 1-22

Part I - History

pp 23-24

1 - Foundation and twelfth century

pp 25-37

2 - The Cistercian Order 1200–1600

pp 38-49

3 - The Cistercian Order since 1600

pp 50-62

Part II - Structure and materiality

pp 63-64

4 - Centres and peripheries

pp 65-79

5 - The Cistercian community

pp 80-86

6 - Constitutions and the General Chapter

pp 87-99

7 - Nuns

pp 100-111

8 - Agriculture and economies

pp 112-124

9 - Art

pp 125-139

10 - Libraries and scriptoria

pp 140-150

11 - Cistercian architecture or architecture of the Cistercians?

pp 151-170

Part III - Religious mentality

pp 171-172

12 - Bernard of Clairvaux

pp 173-185

13 - Bernard of Clairvaux

pp 186-198

14 - Early Cistercian writers

pp 199-217

15 - The spiritual teaching of the early Cistercians

pp 218-232

16 - Cistercians in dialogue

pp 233-244

17 - Preaching

pp 245-257

18 - Liturgy

pp 258-267

Map of Cistercian monasteries

pp 268-268

Primary sources

pp 269-282