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The musical culture of the Cistercians is documented in contemporary times by liturgical books containing Gregorian monody (medieval and modern) and musical manuscripts with vocal-instrumental works used in monasteries during the eighteenth century.

THE CISTERCIAN MUSICAL PRACTICE IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SILESIA IN LIGHT OF SURVIVING MUSICAL AND ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS

As master of novices for ten years (1955-1965) at the Cistercian Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani in Kentucky, Thomas Merton was responsible for the spiritual formation of young men preparing for monastic profession.

Charter, Customs, and Constitutions of the Cistercians

Final workshop took a look at lives of Cistercian monks WE recently held our last Archaeology Cymru Friday workshop, which was a journey of discovery to the delightful landscape of Monknash, near Wick, in the Vale of Glamorgan.

READER PICTURE OF THE DAY

It was presented to the Benedictine monastery at Thurles in Tipperary and the Cistercian Order took over the monastery in 1180.

Ireland's most holy object

Far from being in political isolation, he said the patrons of abbeys in Wales must have been influential to attract the Cistercians here the first place.

ABBEY DAYS! Reverend Alf inspired to tackle Cistercian Way for charity

Historically, the Cistercians tend to be less demonstrative.

200 Val Notre-Dame Abbey

Fountains Abbey: The Cistercians in Northern England.

Abbeys & Priories

Dr Geraldine Stout said the Cistercians had brought a "green agenda" to Ireland.

Archaeological dig reveals secrets of 'green' monks

Since 1994, the Trappist monks, formally known as Cistercians of the Strict Observance, have been mounting a valiant--some might argue quixotic--effort to reconstruct a 12th-century chapter house on the grounds of their monastery using centuries-old stones from a Cistercian monastery in Spain.

Stone by stone: cistercian architecture of silence, contemplation coming to America

The author details the lives of three Cistercians and three Benedictines.

Renaissance Monks: Monastic Humanism in Six Biographical Sketches

The story begins with the Cistercians, a reformist-minded order of Catholic monks founded in France in 1098 in reaction to the laxity of other monastic orders of the day.

Medieval monastery invites communion with the past

Basically, in the late 12th century the Cistercians created an early history for themselves, partly through a misunderstanding of earlier documents and events and partly through deliberate forgeries.

THE CISTERCIAN EVOLUTION. THE INVENTION OF A RELIGIOUS ORDER IN TWELFTH-CENTURY EUROPE