Klöster und Orden im Mittelalter
Sarah Hamilton
Klöster und Orden im Mittelalter, by Gudrun Gleba (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2002; pp. 148. Pb.n.p.). As befits a work published in series entitled Geschichte Kompakt this book does what it says on the spine: just under one hundred and fifty pages covers whole history of medieval monasticism Latin Europe from its origins fourth-century Egyptian desert to monastic visitations reforming German bishops fifteenth century. The result is rather breathless account which follows traditional narrative, more than little unbalanced favour later period: those chapters devoted Cistercians, military orders, mendicants, beguines mystics include lengthier, detailed, narrative each movement, that Cluny Cluniacs, stretches over three centuries beginning with Carolingians' promotion of...
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