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Around the year 1200, the Cistercian Engelhard of Langheim dedicated a collection of monastic stories to a community of religious women. Martha G. Newman explores how this largely unedited collection of tales about Cistercian monks illuminates the religiosity of Cistercian nuns. As did other Cistercian storytellers, Engelhard recorded the miracles and visions of the order's illustrious figures, but he wrote from Franconia, in modern Germany, rather than the Cistercian heartland. His extant texts reflect his interactions with non-Cistercian monasteries and with Langheim's patrons rather than celebrating Bernard of Clairvaux. Engelhard was conservative, interested in maintaining traditional Cistercian patterns of thought. Nonetheless, by offering to women a collection of narratives that explore the oral qualities of texts, the nature of sight, and the efficacy of sacraments, Engelhard articulated a distinctive response to the social and intellectual changes of his period.In analyzing Engelhard's stories, Newman uncovers an understudied monastic culture that resisted the growing emphasis on the priestly administration of the sacraments and the hardening of gender distinctions. Engelhard assumed that monks and nuns shared similar interests and concerns, and he addressed his audiences as if they occupied a space neither fully sacerdotal nor completely lay, neither scholastic nor unlearned, and neither solely male nor only female. His exemplary narratives depict the sacramental value of everyday objects and behaviors whose efficacy relied more on individual spiritual formation than on sacerdotal action. By encouraging nuns and monks to imagine connections between heaven and earth, Engelhard taught faith as a learned disposition. Newman's study demonstrates that scholastic questions about signs, sacraments, and sight emerged in a narrative form within late twelfth-century monastic communities.

Cistercian nuns --- Monastic and religious life --- Spiritual life --- History --- Engelhard, --- Cistercians --- History. --- Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

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Cistercian monasteries --- Cistercian nuns --- Secularization --- History --- History --- History --- Westphalia (Germany) --- Church history

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Im Hochmittelalter wurden in Westfalen 24 Zisterzienser-Nonnenklöster gegründet. Von diesen existierten am Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts noch 10 als Zisterzienserinnenklöster. In den Jahren von 1803 bis 1810 traf diese – in Folge des Reichsdeputationshauptschlußes von 1803 – nacheinander das Schicksal der Säkularisation. Das Buch gibt einen Einblick in die Situation der Zisterzienserinnenklöster am Vorabend der Säkularisation, es beschreibt den Prozess und den Verlauf der Aufhebung der klösterlichen Gemeinschaften und die Reaktionen der verschiedenen Ordensgemeinschaften. Zudem versucht es, den Fragen nachzugehen, was aus den einzelnen Ordensleuten und aus den Klosteranlagen wurde und ob – wie oft vermutet wird – die Aufhebung dieser klösterlichen Gemeinschaften nicht das offizielle Ende eines schon im Sterben begriffenen Systems waren.

Cistercian monasteries --- Cistercian nuns --- Secularization --- History. --- Westphalia (Germany) --- Westfalen --- Westfalen. --- Church history --- Säkularisation --- Zisterzienserinnenkloster

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"Thousands and Thousands of Lovers examines the spiritual significance of community to the Cistercian nuns of Helfta"--

Christian religious orders --- Cistercians --- Germany --- Cistercian nuns --- Communities --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Spiritual life --- Helfta (Convent : Eisleben, Germany)

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Cistercian monasteries --- Cistercian nuns --- History --- History --- Cistercians --- History --- Nowa Marchia (Poland) --- Nowa Marchia (Poland) --- Church history. --- History