Everyday Life at La Trappe under Armand-Jean de Rancé (Cistercian Studies Series)

Bell, David N.

Liturgical Press（2018/10発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 184 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780879072742
• DDC分類 271.12504423

Full Description

This is an annotated translation of the classic Description de l'abbaye de La Trappe, the most important eye-witness account of life at the abbey of La Trappe under Armand-Jean de Rancé. The work includes a map showing the physical layout of the abbey and detailed discussions of the monks' daily life and practice. It was written by André Félibien des Avaux for Jeanne de Schomberg, duchess of Liancourt, in 1671, with a new and enlarged edition being published in 1689. That is the edition translated here, with copious notes to help the reader appreciate Félibien's account.

Contents

Contents
List of Abbreviations   vii
Introduction   1
     Figure 1: Plan of the Abbey of La Trappe, with east at the top   26
     Figure 2: The Interior of the Church of La Trappe   27
Description of the Abbey of La Trappe
     The Bookseller to the Reader   43
     Description of the Abbey of La Trappe (1689)   45
Appendix:
     Discourse on the Reform of the Abbey of La Trappe   155
Select Bibliography   161
Index of Subjects   163
Index of Names and Places   166
Index of Scriptural Citations   174