"To be associated with their sacred remains": Saints' Burials and Sacred Objects in Early Cistercian Exempla Collections
Cistercian exempla collections created between c. 1170 and c. 1220 allow us to consider the role of relics in cults intended for Cistercian communities. This article will explore how exempla provide evidence of ideological concerns: how the Order taught novices to think about relics and saints'...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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The journal of medieval monastic studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 10, Pages: 123-156 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAE Church history 900-1300; high Middle Ages KCA Monasticism; religious orders KCD Hagiography; saints |
| Further subjects: | B
Cistercian
B Exempla B Eucharist B Relics B sacred objects |
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| Summary: | Cistercian exempla collections created between c. 1170 and c. 1220 allow us to consider the role of relics in cults intended for Cistercian communities. This article will explore how exempla provide evidence of ideological concerns: how the Order taught novices to think about relics and saints' cults, and how it attempted to respond to external criticism. These texts also indicate attitudes towards deceased monks and abbots, describing practices that suggest the Cistercians were creating and encouraging their own communities of the sacred through enclosed burial practices. This article argues that relics were important in the Cistercian cult of saints in the twelfth century, though the prominence of relics varied across the collections and over time. |
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| ISSN: | 2034-3523 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of medieval monastic studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1484/J.JMMS.5.125361 |