# The Cistercian World

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- Authors: [Pauline Matarasso](https://www.bookquiver.com/pauline-matarasso)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2006-04-27

## Description

The Cistercian Order was born in Burgundy at the start of the twelfth century as a movement of radical renewal - an Order that survives to this day with the greater part of its written heritage preserved. This volume brings together a selection of its finest works, which speak powerfully across the centuries to modern readers. Writings by St Bernard of Clairvaux (c. 1090-1153) - including his letters, The Life of Malachy the Irishman, sermons on the Song of Songs and the sharply satirical Apologia for Abbot William - reveal him to be a highly individual and influential writer of the Middle Ages. Also included here are a charming description of Clairvaux, biographies of abbots and a series of exemplary stories, all drawing on the Scriptures to express intensely personal forms of monastic theology.

## Editions

### The Cistercian World

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4196-072-2
- Published: 2006-04-27
- Language: en_GB

### The Cistercian World

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4043-356-2
- Pages: 352
- Published: 2006-04-27
- Language: en_GB