The manual work of the monks (11th-12th centuries): ecclesiology and social practices
The article deals with Cistercian representation of monastic labour. It is based primarily on polemical and hagiographical sources in order to understand how monastic discourse about manual activities outside the monastery walls became in the Cistercian order an important element of self-identity co...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Portuguese |
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[2017]
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Horizonte
Year: 2017, Volume: 15, Issue: 48, Pages: 1129-1150 |
| Further subjects: | B
identidade religiosa
B monastic economy B Monasticism B Ordem de Cister B monasticismo B Religious Identity B economia monástica B Labour B Labor B Cistercian Order |
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| Summary: | The article deals with Cistercian representation of monastic labour. It is based primarily on polemical and hagiographical sources in order to understand how monastic discourse about manual activities outside the monastery walls became in the Cistercian order an important element of self-identity construction for the Cistercian order. It is desired to reexamine the place of manual labor in the speeches elaborated by the monks, in order to interrogate the relations - in the heart of monasticism and globally in medieval societies - between work representation and model of society. It is not by chance that the monastic debate becomes acute and changes its nature from the turn of the eleventh to the twelfth century, giving rise to an idea of work that is no longer exclusively an instrument of penance but also a positive means of distinction and hierarchy in the way of perfection and, therefore, of salvation. From this point of view, the turn of the eleventh and twelfth centuries would be, through the new monastic, a new paradigm transmitted by letters, narrative texts, homilies or hagiographies. Thus if the Cistercians do not disrupted the ascetic and penitential image of work, they would enrich with a positive value, in the service of greater communal perfection. |
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| ISSN: | 2175-5841 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Horizonte
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5752/P.2175-5841.2017v15n48p1129 |