Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 1. The spirituality of regular canons in the twelfth century
  • 2. The Cistercian conception of community
  • 3. Did the twelfth century discover the individual?
  • 4. Jesus as mother and abbot as mother: some themes in twelfth-century Cistercian writing
  • 5. Women mystics in the thirteenth century: the case of the nuns of Helfta
  • Appendix: Monastic and canonical treatises of practical spiritual advice.