How To Use Cistercian In A Sentence
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Photo: A contemporary Cistercian monk reads a hand-illuminated antiphonary.
Wired Top Stories
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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
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In his last years he wanted to resign his see to become a Cistercian himself, but was refused.
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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
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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
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Cistercians, the Dominicans, these last chanting at Lauds only the strophe from the abecedary of Sedulius (lines 37-40):
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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It was also against them in southern France that the war known as the Albigensian crusade was proclaimed by Pope Innocent III in 1210, after all other previous efforts at conversion, including preach - ing missions by the Cistercians and the future Domini - cans, and coercion had failed.
HERESY IN THE MIDDLE AGES
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The Cistercian Order was started in France in 1098.
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After a short tour of the ruins of the Cistercian Abbey, founded in 1132, he saw one of Europe's oldest surviving monastic mills.
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As an entr'acte, if you will, to our series about Catholic Bamberg - which will definitely be continued - today we visit another treasure of Catholic Germany closer to my home Berlin, which I visited last Sunday: the former Cistercian Abbey of Neuzelle ( "New Cell") in the state of Brandenburg.
Neuzelle Abbey
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The anonymous author of the Libellus classified monks and canons into three groups based on whether they lived far from men, like the Cistercians, or close to men, like the Victorines, or as hermits.
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Above his head, two angels bear the coat of arms of the Cistercian Order, while below, St. Bernard bears his crozier in his right hand, the abbatial veil curling around its shaft.
New Illustration: The St. Bernard Triptych, Part II
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(France), an esteemed historian, reproaches him with having omitted many saints of the order, and of having inserted persons in his menology who have no right to be there, either because they did not merit it or because they were never clothed with the Cistercian habit.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
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At Pipewell in Northamptonshire, earthworks remain of the pre-existing hamlet, mixed up with earthworks of the Cistercian abbey buildings.
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The Cistercians settled on marginal land and revolutionised the forestry, cereal, viticulture and wool industries of medieval Europe.
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Cistercian monks and nuns take a vow of silence.
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The beguines and tertiaries, and to some extent the newer Cistercian nuns, were drawn from rising social strata - new groups that may have been anxious about their wealth and status.
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The Cistercians, who established the new pattern, prohibited entry for anyone under the age of 16 and insisted upon a year's noviciate.
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In Scotland there were a dozen or so nunneries, mainly Cistercian, and in Ireland about ten of the 140 monasteries were nunneries, all of them for regular canonesses.
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Horizontal episemas and and especially the ictus are of course not found in the Dominican and Cistercian Chant tradition to name just two Chant families, and there is a reason-they weren't needed.
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In Scotland there were a dozen or so nunneries, mainly Cistercian, and in Ireland about ten of the 140 monasteries were nunneries, all of them for regular canonesses.
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Under the abbacy of St Ailred, it flourished, becoming the largest Cistercian community in England.
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But all I experience are the symptoms of withdrawal from the self I have labored a lifetime to create -- what the medieval Cistercians called "the land of unlikeness" hiding the true self that Scripture says is created in God's image.
Retreat Into Silence
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The first abbot of Dunfermline was Geoffrey, prior of Canterbury, while David I's Cistercian foundation at Melrose was established by monks from Rievaulx.
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At the Cistercian female house of Weinhausen in Saxony a very elaborate decoration program survives. 12 The church of the male Dominican convent in Constance, located closer to the female Dominican houses of the Upper Rhine, contained friezes and medallions. 13 Most choir spaces seem to have been decorated, but unfortunately few survive in their thirteenth - and fourteenth-century state.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
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The ironic echoic utterances examined here convey, in their own unusual way, many of the common charges made against the late twelfth-century reformers and the Cistercian order in particular.
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As an entr'acte, if you will, to our series about Catholic Bamberg - which will definitely be continued - today we visit another treasure of Catholic Germany closer to my home Berlin, which I visited last Sunday: the former Cistercian Abbey of Neuzelle ( "New Cell") in the state of Brandenburg.
Neuzelle Abbey
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Monk and mystic, monastic theologian and papal counselor, hagiographer and polemicist, a renowned preacher in the cloister and beyond it, Bernard was the single most important impetus for the spread of the Cistercians.
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These circumstances explain the important role of the new religious orders in these areas - the Augustinian canons regular and each of the four main orders of friars in Ireland, for example, and the Cistercians in Wales.
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Above his head, two angels bear the coat of arms of the Cistercian Order, while below, St. Bernard bears his crozier in his right hand, the abbatial veil curling around its shaft.
New Illustration: The St. Bernard Triptych, Part II
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From Dinbych, Llewelyn moved south into Powys, and then on to the Cistercian abbey of Strata Florida.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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Seeking to flee worldly pursuits by locating their monasteries within remote valleys, the Cistercians emphasized simplified ritual and inner meditation rather than outward ostentation.
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Henry, a lay brother, is also mentioned in the Cistercian menology.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
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In the Cistercian menology he is honoured as one of themselves (19 May).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
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Cistercian arrangement, with the cloister south of the church, and grouped round it the chapter-house, calefactory, refectory, and other loca regularia.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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Here he is flanked by two holy nuns and mystics, St. Lutgardis of Tongeren (a Cistercian) and St. Juliana of Liège with the monstrance.
Neuzelle Abbey
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Sister Elizabeth is a Cistercian nun from the Holy Cross Abbey in Whitland, South Wales. She has long been a great rose lover.
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The anonymous author of the Libellus classified monks and canons into three groups based on whether they lived far from men, like the Cistercians, or close to men, like the Victorines, or as hermits.
