medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
There are spiritual reasons for a ban that can be deduced from Bernard's De consideratione, with its complaint about the Curia paying more attention to the law than anything else.
Tom Izbicki
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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Many thanks for the comments.
Christopher, I wasn't querying the fact-- believe me, I am all too aware in
this company that I am no historian, though I hope I am still a scholar-- I
had hoped someone on the List mught be able to shed light on the underlying
attitude of the Cistercian Order which led to this position. If they "did
not approve of their monks either studying or having access to legal
materials" there must have been a reason. It seems there were theology texts
in plenty, so it wasn't just a dislike of wasting good praying time with
reading. (I am being flippant here.)
Tom, I will pursue the paper in The jurist as soon as I can get to my local
university library. It looks promising.
Thanks a lot.
Pat
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