CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Miller, Dane R |
|---|---|
| Title | Sing a New Song: The Spirit of Cistercian Liturgical Reform and the 1147 Hymnal |
| Summary | Traditional accounts of the competitive interaction between twelfth century monastic reform movements in the Western church often focus on the role of individual actors, drawing on letter collections or treatises as source evidence. Building on that approach, this thesis takes one aspect of Cistercian liturgical reform, the 1147 hymnal as reconstructed by Chrysogonus Waddell, OCSO, to understand how the Cistercians constructed and attempted to maintain a distinctive monastic identity through liturgical practice. It examines first the voices of three Cistercian monks to understand how liturgical and theological views coalesced within the order, then sets the Cistercian perspective against the views of two other reformers, Peter the Venerable and Peter Abelard, particularly through their interaction with Bernard of Clairvaux and their own liturgical activities. Finally, it examines the hymnal evidence itself in comparison against practices at Cluny and the Paraclete to show how the Cistercian hymnal set itself apart and how it overlapped with hymnal traditions elsewhere. In spite of Cistercian efforts to reform their practices to reflect their own interpretation of the Benedictine Rule, the hymnal revision evidence shows that they continued to be influenced by outside trends that moderated their attempt to create a distinctive identity and that other monastic groupings adapted the Cistercian hymnal for their own use. |
| Supervisor | Gabor Klanicszay |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/miller_dane.pdf |
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