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Can the rise of new monastic orders in the twelfth century and of mendicant orders in the thirteenth be explained in similar terms?
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B. McEwan Can the rise of new monastic orders in the twelfth century and of mendicant orders in the thirteenth be explained in similar terms? In 1098 the Cistercians were founded when a group of monks led by their Abbot, Robert left the abbey of Molesmes and travelled to Citreaux. The Cistercians were the most significant new order since the rise of the Cluniacs in the tenth century and were followed by the Praemonstratensians who Norbert of Xanten founded in 1120. The Cistercians especially had a profound effect on the Church. The rise of these orders in the twelfth century was paralleled by the rise of the Franciscans and Dominicans in the thirteenth century. Francis of Assisi gained papal blessing for his order in 1209 and Dominic of Spain did so in 1216. It should not be surprising that the rise of such orders though separated by over a century can be...
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