Narratives Of A New Order: Cistercian Historical Writing (MCS 2) (MEDIEVAL CH -

Brepols Publishers, 2002. 1st. hardcover. New. 103x12x159.

Turnhout Brepols 2002. Hardback, Narratives of a New Order Cistercian Historical Writing in England, 1150-1220, ISBN 9782503510903. The author examines the classic genre for inventing a past, argueing that historical narratives of the English Cistercians helped define the characteristics of the new Cistercian monastic order as well as new political orders of twelfth- and thirteenth-century England. The origins of the Cistercian monastic order are currently under intense scrutiny and revision, as scholars identify how the written word was used to 'invent' a unified corporate identity. Here Elizabeth Freeman examines the classic genre for inventing a past ' the history, chronicle, and annal ' and argues that historical narratives of the English Cistercians helped define the characteristics of both the new Cistercian monastic order and also the new orders of twelfth- and thirteenth-century England. She shows how Aelred of Rievaulx's Relatio de standardo and Genealogia regum… Read More