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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780812297584
035 _a(DE-B1597)572291
035 _a(OCoLC)1202624846
040 _aDE-B1597
_beng
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aNewman, Martha G.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aCistercian Stories for Nuns and Monks :
_bThe Sacramental Imagination of Engelhard of Langheim /
_cMartha G. Newman.
264 1 _aPhiladelphia :
_bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,
_c[2020]
264 4 _c©2021
300 _a1 online resource (320 p.) :
_b5 illus.
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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490 0 _aThe Middle Ages Series
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAbbreviations --
_tIntroduction --
_tChapter 1. Engelhard, Langheim, and the Nuns of Wechterswinkel --
_tChapter 2. Stories and Community: Seeing, Hearing, and Writing --
_tChapter 3. Sign, Sight, and the Sacrament of Faith --
_tChapter 4. Visions of the Eucharist --
_tChapter 5. Imagining Cistercian Holiness --
_tChapter 6. Discerning the Conscience --
_tConclusion --
_tAppendix. Engelhard of Langheim’s Book of Exempla: The Manuscripts --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex --
_tAcknowledgments
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aAround 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.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022)
650 0 _aCistercian nuns
_xSpiritual life
_xHistory
_yTo 1500.
650 0 _aMonastic and religious life
_xHistory
_yMiddle Ages, 600-1500
_zGermany.
650 7 _aHISTORY / Europe / Western.
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653 _aHistory.
653 _aMedieval and Renaissance Studies.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.9783/9780812297584
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812297584
856 4 2 _3Cover
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