| Author/Contributor(s): | Merton, Thomas |
| Publisher: | HarperOne |
| Date: | 10/9/1979 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
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.