Starting from the second half of the 12th century, and for at least fifty years, a number of miracle collections was produced in Clairvaux and in other houses of the Cistercian Order. These sources offer an interesting point of view on medieval monasticism and on the political and cultural panorama of Europe between the 12th and the 13th centuries, because the white monks recorded in them aspects of their daily life, of their liturgy, and of the norm and customs they followed, with the precise intent of preserving and spreading their ‘modus vivendi’. At the turn of the 12th century, the Cistercian Order had to face serious challenges regarding their political, economical and spiritual life. Hagiography mirrored the most pressing issues of an age of profound change; through miracle literature, the white monks recomposed their tensions and ambitions in the frame of the supernatural charisma, in order to affirm and legitimate a superiority in decline.

Dalla seconda metà del XII secolo, e per almeno un cinquantennio, a Clairvaux e in altri monasteri dell'Ordine cistercense fu redatto un ampio numero di collezioni di miracoli. Tali fonti costituiscono un interessante punto di osservazione sul mondo monastico medievale e sugli scenari politici e culturali dell'Europa dei secoli XII e XIII, poiché in essi i Cistercensi registrarono aspetti della vita quotidiana, della liturgia, delle norme e delle consuetudini da loro seguite, con lo scopo di affermare e di trasmettere il proprio "modus vivendi". Al volgere del secolo XII l'Ordine cistercense affrontò difficoltà di natura politica, economica, culturale e spirituale. La letteratura agiografica specchiò le istanze di un’epoca di profondi cambiamenti, ricomponendo ambizioni e tensioni nel quadro del carisma sovrannaturale del quale i monaci bianchi si proposero come i migliori interpreti

Braca, L., I ‘Libri Miraculorum’ Cistercensi. Visioni dell’aldilà e crisi istituzionale tra XII e XIII secolo, Il Prato, Saonara (PD) 2017: 392 [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/270936]

I ‘Libri Miraculorum’ Cistercensi. Visioni dell’aldilà e crisi istituzionale tra XII e XIII secolo

Braca, Lorenzo
Primo
2017

Abstract

Starting from the second half of the 12th century, and for at least fifty years, a number of miracle collections was produced in Clairvaux and in other houses of the Cistercian Order. These sources offer an interesting point of view on medieval monasticism and on the political and cultural panorama of Europe between the 12th and the 13th centuries, because the white monks recorded in them aspects of their daily life, of their liturgy, and of the norm and customs they followed, with the precise intent of preserving and spreading their ‘modus vivendi’. At the turn of the 12th century, the Cistercian Order had to face serious challenges regarding their political, economical and spiritual life. Hagiography mirrored the most pressing issues of an age of profound change; through miracle literature, the white monks recomposed their tensions and ambitions in the frame of the supernatural charisma, in order to affirm and legitimate a superiority in decline.
2017
Italiano
Monografia o trattato scientifico
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Braca, L., I ‘Libri Miraculorum’ Cistercensi. Visioni dell’aldilà e crisi istituzionale tra XII e XIII secolo, Il Prato, Saonara (PD) 2017: 392 [https://hdl.handle.net/10807/270936]
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