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Cistercian sources: footnotes

1. J. M. Canivez, Statuta Capitulorum Generalium Ordinis ab anno 1116 ad anno 1786 8 vols (Louvain, 1933-41). Canivez's dating of some of the earlier decrees has, however, been challenged, see C. Waddell, 'Towards a new provisional edition of the Statutes of the Cistercian General Chapter, c. 1119-1198', in Studiosorum Speculum: Studies in Honour of Louis J. Lekai, ed. F. R. Swietek and J. Sommerfeldt (Kalamazoo, 1993), pp. 384-419.
2. The Ecclesiastica Officia has been edited several times. For a recent edition see Les Ecclesiastica Officia Cisterciens du xii siecle, ed. D. Choisselet and P. Vernet (Reinigue, 1989). A recent translation into English, with a useful glossary, is available from Guadalupe Translations with the title The Ancient Usages of the Cistercian Order (1998).
3. C. Waddell, Cistercian Lay-Brothers: Twelfth-Century Usages with Related Texts, (Brecht, 2000), pp. 51-78 for an edition of the Usages, and see pp. 164-95 for an English translation.
4. Waddell, Cistercian Lay-Brothers, pp. 20-1.

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