Status
Available
Collection
Publication
Houghton Mifflin (1979), 432 pages
Description
An examination of the roots of the Cistercian Order, founded in 1098, its development and waning, and the seventeenth-century reforms by the Abbé de Rancé, which began the second flowering that continues today. Throughout, Merton illuminates the purposes of monasticism. Index; photographs.
Original publication date
1949
ISBN
0156949547 / 9780156949545