Cistercian

Examples of Cistercian in the following topics:

• Cistercian Architecture

  • The Cistercians are a Roman Catholic religious order of enclosed monks and nuns.
  • Cistercian architecture was based on rational principles.
  • This was also true of the Cistercian projects.
  • The Cistercians recruited the best stone cutters.
  • Relate Cistercian architecture to the rational principles upon which it is based.

• The Rise of the Monasteries

  • The next wave of monastic reform after the Benedictines came with the Cistercian movement.
  • The first Cistercian abbey was founded in 1098, at Cîteaux Abbey.
  • The keynote of Cistercian life was a return to a literal observance of the Benedictine Rule, rejecting the developments of the Benedictines.
  • Inspired by Bernard of Clairvaux, the primary builder of the Cistercians, the Cistercians became the main force of technological diffusion in medieval Europe.
  • By the end of the 12th century the Cistercian houses numbered 500, and at its height in the 15th century the order claimed to have close to 750 houses.

• The Church

  • They were followed by the Cluniac order, the Cistercians, Carthusians, and Augustinian Canons.

• The Romanesque Period

  • Monasteries remained extremely important, especially those of the expansionist new Cistercian, Cluniac, and Carthusian orders of the period that spread out across Europe.

• Architecture of the Holy Roman Empire

  • Other important examples of Romanesque styles include the cathedrals of Worms and Mainz, Limburg Cathedral (in the Rhenish Romanesque style), Maulbronn Abbey (an example of Cistercian architecture), and the famous castle of Wartburg, which was later expanded in the Gothic style.