Cistercian

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• For four centuries it was home to members of the Cistercian order, whose lives were dominated by manual labour and prayer.
• He had restored the Danegeld, or land tax, so often abolished, under the new name of 'carucage,' had seized the wool of the Cistercians and the plate of the churches, and rated movables as well as land. Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins
• Across the Channel in England, at roughly the same time, Aelred, the Cistercian abbot of Rievaulx, composed a Rule for recluses intended for his sister and the small group of companions who had joined her in the anchoritic life. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
• The monks of Our Lady of Spring Bank in Sparta, Wisconsin, have decided to post and publish the first large update to the Cistercian Psalter since 1948 – a massive job and one that absolutely requires open source texts. The Church's Ritual Texts Must Be Freed
• Others, like William of Conches and the Arabic doctors, demonstrated an interest in putative astrological influences on the fetus's development. 42 But by the mid-thirteenth century, Vincent of Beauvais followed his source, the Cistercian Helinand of Froidmont, a twelfth-century critic of astrology, and strongly attacked the belief in the planets 'power to determine sex differentiation in the womb. 43 Medical writers generally avoided the question of celestial interference and concentrated on the positive and negative influences of terrestrial bodies, especially the maternal body encasing the fetus. A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
• Photo: A contemporary Cistercian monk reads a hand-illuminated antiphonary. Wired Top Stories
• Although there was a wide variety — and no architectural plan was imposed upon them as it was among the Cistercians — the women's churches were either aisleless hall churches in the shape of a rectangle as at Töss, Au bei Stein, and St. Katharinenthal, or a usually aisleless nave with a Germanic Langchor, as at Klingenthal, Oetenbach, and Unterlinden. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
• In his last years he wanted to resign his see to become a Cistercian himself, but was refused.
• The ruins of the Cistercian Church which once graced this shore and raised above the trees its lighthouse tower, a seamark by day and a beacon by night, are among the loveliest in Wessex. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter
• The Benedictines, Cistercians, and all the old monastic orders now use the cowl, a great mantle with a good that can be thrown back over the shoulders, as a ceremonial dress for choir; the Franciscans have a smaller hood fixed to their habit; canons wear it on their mozzetta, and bishops and cardinals on the cappa. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery