TY - BOOK ID - 7169009 TI - The great beginning of Cîteaux : a narrative of the beginning of the Cistercian order : the Exordium Magnum of Conrad of Eberbach AU - Conrad of Eberbach AU - Elder, E. Rozanne AU - McGuire, Brian Patrick AU - Ward, Benedicta AU - Savage, Paul PY - 2012 VL - 72 SN - 9780879071721 9780879077822 0879071729 PB - Collegeville, Minn. Liturgical Press DB - UniCat KW - Cistercians KW - History KW - 271.12 <093> KW - Cisterciënzers. Bernardijnen--Historische bronnen KW - 271.12 <093> Cisterciënzers. Bernardijnen--Historische bronnen KW - Zisterzienser KW - White Monks KW - Bernardines (Cistercian) KW - Order of Cîteaux KW - Cîteaux, Order of KW - S. Ordo Cisterciensis KW - Sacer Ordo Cisterciensis KW - Ordo Cisterciensis KW - Cisztercita Szerzetes KW - Cisterciensi KW - Řád cisterciáků KW - Cisterciácký řád KW - Cisterciens KW - Trappists KW - Non-fiction KW - Conrad of Eberbach UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7169009 AB - In the closing decades of the twelfth century the Cistercian Order found itself in a world rather different from the one in which it had been founded and began to thrive. The Order was justifiably proud of its achievements and unparalleled diffusion across Europe. It had become an important ecclesiastical and economic power in Europe and developed an institutional structure meant to sustain a large, widespread organization. Yet it had lost its influential spokesman, Bernard of Clairvaux, and as the century drew to a close, religious sensibilities were changing. The new mendicant orders, the Franciscans and the Dominicans, and the impulses they embodied, were to shift the center of gravity in Christian religious life for centuries to come. ER -