THE CISTERCIAN EVOLUTION

The Cistercian Evolution The Invention of a Religious Order in Twelfth-Century Europe Constance Hoffman Berman An extremely important book, one that will redefine the ways we conceive of medieval religiosity and politics.--Virginia Quarterly Review A significant contribution to the study of the history of monasticism in the twelfth century.--EHR Stimulating, controversial, and compelling, Constance Bermans major revisions of early Cistercian history, The Cistercian Evolution, should be read by historians of monasticism and will greatly interest scholars in the institutional and religious history of the twelfth century as well as those who study the experience of women in that period.--The Medieval Review An important and provocative book