Tradition and Transmission: What is the Significance of the Cistercian General Chapters' Statutes? (Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries)

Alexis Grélois (1)

1 GRHis - Groupe de Recherche d'Histoire

A complete and definitive collection of the general chapter appears as a Cistercian Grail, always yearned for, sometimes approached, but never truly possessed. We all know that one learns much on such a quest, but the question is : what does one learn from it ? Regarding the Cistercian statutes, we should address various issues : What materials are available for such an edition ? Are they sufficient for a good edition ? If not, what does it teach us about Cistercian practices and about the directions in which Cistercian studies should turn ?

Keywords: Cistercian order; Cistercian legislation; General chapter

Keywords: Cistercien (ordre); chapitre général; législation

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences; Humanities and Social Sciences; History

Alexis Grélois. Tradition and Transmission: What is the Significance of the Cistercian General Chapters' Statutes? (Twelfth to Fourteenth Centuries). Krijn Pansters; Abraham Plunkett-Latimer. Shaping Stability. The Normation and Formation of Religious Life in the Middle Ages, Brepols, pp.205-216, 2016. ⟨hal-02349063⟩