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This book explores the dimensions of medieval monastic meditation, prayer, and contemplation in the heyday of Benedictine and Cistercian spiritual writing, the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Mancia aims to answer the following questions: What did extra-liturgical prayer and meditation look like for medieval monks and nuns in western medieval Europe? When, where, and how was it practised? Was there a set way to engage with monastic meditation, or were there a variety of medieval monastic meditative experiences in the eleventh and twelfth centuries? What did monks and nuns perceive as the limitations of monastic prayer and meditation, and how did they understand their own imperfections and failures to perform perfect devotion? What extra-textual tools - art, manuscripts, diagrams, spaces - did monks and nuns rely upon to stimulate their practices of meditation? What does monastic meditation reveal about the emotional lives of Benedictine and Cistercian monks and nuns in the high Middle Ages? And, finally, what does the monastic struggle to pursue a prayerful Christian life have to teach the secular world of the twenty-first century?

Spiritual life. --- Prayer --- Meditation. --- Anglican monasticism and religious orders. --- Meditation --- Anglican monasticism and religious orders --- Anglican Church. --- Anglican church --- History --- Cistercians. --- Benedictines. --- Cistercians --- Benedictines --- Monasticism and religious orders, Anglican --- Monasticism and religious orders --- Worship --- Prayers --- Mental prayer --- Prayer, Mental --- Spiritual life --- Contemplation --- Life, Spiritual --- Religious life --- Spirituality --- Bencések --- Benedettini --- Bénédictins --- Beneditinos --- Benedyktyni --- O.S.B. --- Ordem de São Bento --- Order of Saint Benedict --- Ordine di San Benedetto --- Ordo Sancti Benedicti --- OSB --- Saint Benedict, Order of --- Zisterzienser --- White Monks --- Bernardines (Cistercian) --- Order of Cîteaux --- Cîteaux, Order of --- S. Ordo Cisterciensis --- Sacer Ordo Cisterciensis --- Ordo Cisterciensis --- Cisztercita Szerzetes --- Cisterciensi --- Řád cisterciáků --- Cisterciácký řád --- Cisterciens --- Trappists --- Řád cisterciák --- History of Emotions, Monasticism, Medieval Christianity, asceticism,. --- Christian church history