Cistercians and Cluniacs: St. Bernard's Apologia to Abbot William Volume 1

by Michael Casey and Bernard of Clairvaux

Book Overview

Founded in 910 to return to the authentic monasticism of St Benedict, the Abbey of Cluny led a revolution in the medieval Church. Wresting secular hands from control of monastic offices and finances, the great burgundian monastery and its hundreds of daughter houses inspired eleventh-century churchmen to seize control of the Church from petty lords and outraged emperors. Powerful and respected, the Cluniac order cast a long shadow over the european...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879071028
• ISBN13: 9780879071028
• Release Date: June 1970
• Publisher: Liturgical Press
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.4" x 8.3"