Matarasso, Pauline, trans., The Cistercian World: Monastic Writings of the Twelfth Century (New York: Penguin Classics, 1993). ISBN: 140433562
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Text name(s): The Little Exord; The Admonition of Stephen Harding; Vita Prima; Apologia for Abbot William; The Life of Malachy the Irishman; Three Sermons on the Song of Songs; On Consideration; Nine Letters of Bernard of Clairvaux; Three Meditiations by William of St. Thierry; Three Sermons of Guerric of Igny; Fourth Homily on Mary, the Virgin Mother; The Life of Aelred; On Spiritual Friendship; The Mirror of Charity; Pastoral Prayer; Sermons; Life of Wulfric of Haselbury; A Description of Clairvaux; Eight Stories from Exemplum Collections

Number of pages of primary source text: 300

Medieval Author(s): Adam of Perseigne Aelred of Rievaulx Amadeus of Lausanne Bernard of Clairvaux Daniel, Walter Gilbert of Hoyland Guerric Isaac of Stella John of Ford William of St. Thierry

Dates: 1100 - 1215

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Original Language(s): Latin;

Translation: English translation.

Translation Comments:

Geopolitical Region(s): British Isles; England; France; Germany; Ireland; Italy;

County/Region: Burgundy

Apparatus: Appendices Introduction

Comments:

Collects sermons, saints’ lives, prayers and meditations, and treatises written by some of the most influential twelfth century Cistercians, as well as other short extracts relating to Cistercian houses. Translated into English from the original Latin. Apparatus includes a guide to the monastic hours.

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Cataloger: jmg