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In this book, David N. Bell explores what Cistercian writers and preachers have said about Mary from the time of the founding fathers of the Order to Armand-Jean de Rancé, who introduced the Cistercian Strict Observance and who died in 1700. This work is divided into three parts. The first part presents some selective background material on Mary that is necessary for understanding where the Cistercian writers are coming from and the sources and ideas they are using. The next eight chapters, the second part of the book, examine the Marian ideas of Cistercian writers from Bernard of Clairvaux to a number of visionaries, both male and female, who take us to the very end of the thirteenth century. There is then a gap of more than three centuries—the reasons are given at the end of chapter 12—before we arrive at the birth of Armand-Jean de Rancé in 1626. The final chapters—part 3 of the book—summarize the life of Rancé, examine the place of Mary at La Trappe, and present annotated translations of Rancé's five conferences for three Marian feasts: the Nativity of Mary, the Annunciation, and the Assumption.
Contents
Contents
List of Abbreviations ix
Introduction
What This Book Is, and What It Is Not 1
Part One: Mary
Chapter One
Birth and Death 11
Chapter Two
Themes and Titles 28
Chapter Three
A Question of Sin 44
Chapter Four
Conception and Misconception 59
Part Two: The Cistercians
Chapter Five
Cistercian Beginnings and Bernard of Clairvaux 79
Chapter Six
Two Disciples of Bernard: William of Saint-Thierry and Guerric of Igny 96
Chapter Seven
Bernard's Secretary and Biographer: Geoffrey of Auxerre 112
Chapter Eight
Two Travelers: Isaac of Stella and Amadeus of Lausanne 129
Chapter Nine
An English Abbot: Aelred of Rievaulx 148
Chapter Ten
Two Neglected Sources: Stephen of Sawley and Ogier of Locedio 166
Chapter Eleven
Mary at Forde: Baldwin, John, and Roger 190
Chapter Twelve
Mary and the Visionaries 207
Part Three: Armand-Jean de Rancé
Chapter Thirteen
The Virgin at La Trappe 233
Chapter Fourteen
Armand-Jean de Rancé: The Conference for the Feast of the Nativity of the Virgin 259
Chapter Fifteen
Armand-Jean de Rancé: The Conference for the Feast of the Annunciation 284
Chapter Sixteen
Armand-Jean de Rancé: The First Conference for the Feast of the Assumption 303
Chapter Seventeen
Armand-Jean de Rancé: The Second Conference for the Feast of the Assumption 320
Chapter Eighteen
Armand-Jean de Rancé: The Third Conference for the Feast of the Assumption 337
Chapter Nineteen
Drawing the Threads Together: The Cistercians and Mary 352
Select Bibliography 372
Index of Persons 381
Index of Principal Marian Themes 386
