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Jamroziak, Emilia, “Cistercian identities in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Scotland: the case of Melrose Abbey”, in: Matthew Hammond (ed.), New perspectives on medieval Scotland, 1093–1286, 32, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2013. 175–182.

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“Cistercian identities in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Scotland: the case of Melrose Abbey”
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175–182
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2013
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The concept of ‘Cistercianness’, Cistercian ethos or ideal, has a long history, and on the whole has been understood as something that developed fairly early on, in the first decades of the twelfth century, and then continued to shape monastic history for the rest of the middle ages. Therefore, any deviation from it has been seen as a symptom of decline and diversion from a correct path. The editions of key early Cistercian sources by Chrysogonus Waddell changed the chronology of many of these texts and made clear that they, and hence the ideas contained in them, developed over several decades. A very radical, and much contested, interpretation by Constance Berman postulated that the structures of the order did not come into being until the 1160s at the earliest and were preceded by a slow transformation of the amorphous ‘Cistercian movement’. These debates helped to abandon finally the idea that ‘true’ Cistercian spirit and identity as set in the early twelfth century was to define the monastic experience for the rest of the middle ages and any deviation from this rigid set of ideas indicated ‘decline’. Moreover, the extensive geographical expansion of the Cistercian family in the twelfth century also poses the question of the nature of ‘Cistercianness’ beyond its French core. Were Cistercian abbeys in Scotland, Ireland, Scandinavia, or beyond the River Elbe the same in their practice, outlook, and self-identification as monasteries in Burgundy, Italy, or England? It is too simplistic to describe them simply as somehow less Cistercian than their mother houses.
(source: first paragraph, CUP)
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Scotland 12th century 13th century
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Cistercian monks;Order of Cistercians
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