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The Benedictines on the Cistercians: footnotes

1. Orderic Vitalis, The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis, ed. and tr. M. Chibnall (6 vols., Oxford, 1969-80), IV p. 325.

2. William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum Anglorum, The History of the English Kings, ed. and tr. R. A. B. Mynors, R. M. Thomson and M. Winterbottom (2 vols., Oxford, 1998-9), I, pp. 577, 581, 585.

3. Peter the Venerable, The Letters of Peter the Venerable, ed. G. Constable (2 vols., Cambridge Mass., 1967), I, ep. 28.

4. Orderic Vitalis, Ecclesiastical History IV, pp. 311-313.

5. Nigel Wireker, Mirror for Fools: The Book of Burnel the Ass, tr. J. H. Mozley (Oxford, 1961), p. 62

6. Orderic Vitalis, Ecclesiastical History, IV, p. 326. Peter the Venerable, abbot of Cluny, wrote to Bernard of Clairvaux in 1149 voicing his frustration at the Cistercians’ unwillingness to let Black monks into their cloisters, and suggested that if they were more open diverse customs would not separate these and those monks, whom the same faith and charity should truly make brothers, Peter the Venerable, Letters I, ep. 150.

7. Patralogia Cursus Completus Series Latina, ed J. P. Migne (221 vols., Paris, 1844-65), CLXXXIX, col. 112 ff (Petrus Venerabilis, Epistolarum libri sex (XXVIII); cited in F. Mullin, A History of the Cistercians in Yorkshire (Washington, 1932) p. 4.

 

Seculars on the Cistercians: footnotes

8. Walter Map, De Nugis Curialium, ed. and tr. M. R. James, rev. C. N. L. Brooke and R. A. B. Mynors (Oxford, 1983), p. 85.

9. Cited in G. Constable, The Reformation of the Twelfth Century (Cambridge, 1996) p. 106.

10. Walter Map, De Nugis Curialium, p. 77.

 

11. From his letter to William, archbishop of Canterbury, translated by A. W. Oxford in his The Ruins of Fountains (London, 1910), pp. 137-163, at p. 162.

12. Walter Map, De Nugis Curialium, pp.75, 87

13. Gerald of Wales, Journey through Wales, p. 104.

14. Gerald of Wales, The Journey through Wales / Description of Wales, tr. L. Thorpe (Harmondsworth, 1978), p. 104.

15. Cited in J. S. Donnelly, 'Changes in the grange economy of English and Welsh abbeys 1300-1540', Traditio 10 (1954) pp. 399-458, at p. 409.

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17. From John of Ford’s Life of Wulfric, translated in The Cistercian World: Monastic Writings of the Twelfth Century, ed. and tr. P. Matarasso (Harmondsworth, 1993), pp. 231-273, at pp. 253-4.

 

How the Cistercians saw themselves: footnotes

18. Aelred of Rievaulx: The Mirror of Charity, tr. E. Connor (Kalamazoo, 1990), II 17: 43 (p. 194); for the Latin see Speculum Caritatis, I: 17; PL cxcv, cols. 562-3.

19. Bernard of Clairvaux, The Letters of St Bernard of Clairvaux, tr. B. S. James, rev. B. Kienzle (Stroud, 1998), ep. 151 (pp. 219-221).

20. Walter Daniel, Vita Aelredi, The Life of Aelred of Rievaulx, ed. and tr. F. M. Powicke (Edinburgh, 1978), p. 5.

21. Jocelin of Furness, Life of Waldef tr. McFadden, bk.1, ch. 11:34 (p.240)

22. Idungus of Prüfung, Cistercians and Cluniacs: the Case for Cîteaux [A Dialogue between Two Monks; an Argument on Four Questions], ed. and tr. J. O’Sullivan and J. Leahey (Kalamazoo, 1977), II: 52, pp. 93-4.

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