Understanding Rance The Spirituality of the Abbot of la Trappe in Context

Name: Understanding Rance The Spirituality of the Abbot of la Trappe in Context
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ISBN: 9780879071059

ISBN-10: 0879071052

ISBN-13: 9780879071059

Edition: 2005

Authors: David N. Bell

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Both during his lifetime and afterwards Armand Jean le Bouthiellier, the abbe de Rance, was a controversial figure. Alive, he was extravagantly admired by many, yet had, as one recent biographer observed, 'an unhappy genius for incurring hostility unnecessarily'. Dead, he continued to evoke extreme reactions-he was either loved or loathed. One biographer nicknamed him 'the thundering abbot'; others depicted him in hagiographical panegyrics. The present volume sets Rance against the colorful and extravagant world of seventeenth-century France and corrects both masterly and entertaining caricatures by exploring the world which surrounded and formed this ever fascinating monk: the privileged…

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List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Cistercian Publications, Incorporated
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 371
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990



Abbreviations


Introduction





Rance's Biographers


Rance's France


Rance's Order


Rance's Sins


Rance's Joy


Rance's Reading


Rance's Enemies


Rance's Conversion


Rance's Monasticism


Understanding Rance


Bibliography


Works of Rance


Printed works (excluding letters, dubia and spuria)


Unprinted and untraced works


Letters


Collections of letters


Single letters


Dubia and spuria


Selections from the works of Rance


Biographies, biographical material, and controversial literature


The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries


The nineteenth and twentieth centuries


Biographies in encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other similar compendia


Index