Konrad von Eberbach - The Great Beginning of Citeaux: A Narrative of the Beginning of the Cistercian Order: The Exordium Magnum of Conrad of Eberbach

CISTERCIAN FATHERS SERIES: NUMBER SEVENTY-TWO

The Great Beginning of Cteaux

A Narrative of the Beginning of the Cistercian Order

CISTERCIAN FATHERS SERIES: NUMBER SEVENTY-TWO

The Great Beginning of Cteaux

A Narrative of the Beginning of the Cistercian Order

The Exordium Magnum
of
Conrad of Eberbach

Translated by
Benedicta Ward, SLG, and Paul Savage

Edited by
E. Rozanne Elder

Foreword by
Brian Patrick McGuire

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A translation of the critical edition of Bruno Grieer,
Exordium magnum cisterciense sive Narratio de initio cisterciensis ordinis,
Series Scriptorum Sacri Ordinis Cisterciensis, volume 2
Rome: Editiones Cistercienses, 1961

Translation 2012 Benedicta Ward and Paul Savage

Introduction 2012 Paul Savage

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Konrad, Abbot of Eberbach, d. 1221.

[Exordium magnum Cisterciense. English]

The great beginning of Citeaux : a narrative of the beginning of the Cistercian order : the Exordium magnum of Conrad of Eberbach / translated by Benedicta Ward and Paul Savage ; edited by E. Rozanne Elder.

p. cm. (Cistercian fathers series ; no. 72)

Includes index.

ISBN 978-0-87907-172-1 (hardcover) ISBN 978-0-87907-782-2 (e-book)

1. CisterciansHistorySources. I. Ward, Benedicta, 1933- II. Savage, Paul. III. Elder, E. Rozanne (Ellen Rozanne), 1940- IV. Title.

BX3406.3.K6613 2012

271'.12dc23

2011052980

To the memory of

M. Basil Pennington, OCSO

A. M. (Donald) Allchin

Et quod miratur in patribus, ipse sequatur

Contents

Brian Patrick McGuire

Benedicta Ward, SLG

Paul Savage

Abbreviations

Bibliographic details are cited in the bibliography.

The Works of Bernard of Clairvaux

English translations are noted in the bibliography.