Monastic Devotion: footnotes

1. Les Ecclesiastica Officia Cisterciens du XII Siecle, ed. Choisselet, D. and P. Vernet (Reiningue, 1989), 75:44 (p. 222); Institutes, XLIX in Narrative and Legislative Texts from Early Cîteaux, ed. C. Waddell (Cîteaux, 1999), p. 477.

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2. Caesarius of Heisterbach, The Dialogue on Miracles, tr. H. Von E. Scott and C. C. Swinton Bland, 2 vols. (London, 1929), I, ch. XXXIV, p. 231.

3. Caesarius of Heisterbach, Dialogue on Miracles, I, ch. XXXVIII, p. 234.

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4. Idungus of Prufung, ‘A Dialogue between Two Monks’ in Cistercians and Cluniacs: the Case for Cîteaux, tr. J. O’sullivan and L. Leahey (Michigan, 1977), I: 41 (p. 44).

5. See C. Harper-Bill, ‘Cistercian visitation in the late Middle Ages: the case of Hailes Abbey’ , Bulletin of Historical Research LIII (1980), pp. 103-114 at p. 108.

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6. Statuta capitulorum generalium ordinis Cisterciensis ab anno 1116 ad annum 1786, ed. J. Canivez (8 vols; Louvain, 1933-41), II: 1261: 9.

7. Canivez, Statutes II: 1256: 6.

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8. J. France, The Cistercians in Medieval Art (Stroud, 1998), p. 176.

9. Aelred of Rievaulx: The Mirror of Charity, bk. II, ch. 23: ‘The vain pleasure of the ears’ , tr. E. Connor (Kalamazoo, 1990), pp. 209-212.

10. J. France, The Cistercians in Medieval Art (Stroud, 1998), p. 173; Meaux Chronicle III, p. lxxxii..

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11. The following descriptions are taken from R. Richardson, ‘The altar and the vestments’ , in A Definitive History of Abbey Dore, ed. R. Shoesmith and R. Richardson (Almeley, 1997), pp. 155-8.

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12. Meaux Chronicle I, pp. lxxvii-lxxxii.

13. It is described as candalabrum electrinum, quite literally an amber candelabrum.

14. R. Richardson, ‘The altar and the vestments’ , in A Definitive History of Abbey Dore, ed. R. Shoesmith and R. Richardson (Almeley, 1997), pp. 155-8, at pp. 157-8.

15. R. Stalley, The Cistercian Monasteries of Ireland (London, 1987), p. 220.

16. Foundation of Kirkstall, p. 183.

17. Meaux Chronicle I, pp. lxxvii-lxxxii.

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18. See T. Kinder, Cistercian Europe: Architecture of Contemplation (Kalamazoo, 2002), pp. 338-40.

19. J. France, The Cistercians in Medieval Art (Stroud, 1998), p. 176.

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