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A mission to the Orthodox? the Cistercians in Romania

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2016

Brenda M. Bolton
Brenda M. Bolton*
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University of London, Westfield College
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It has been said that Innocent III shared the popular belief existing at the beginning of the thirteenth century that the world would end in 1284. Perhaps this is the reason why throughout his pontificate he was eager to resolve the divisions facing mankind. These divisions were reflected in the deviations of the heretic, the beliefs of the infidel and the schism of the eastern church. In the first of these Innocent was meeting success, albeit in varying degrees, for example in Languedoc. The second and third needed his further attention. He was of the opinion that a renewed crusading effort in both east and west would be able to achieve mass conversions amongst Jews and Muslims. To this end the fourth crusade of 1204, mounted mainly by the Cistercians, came into being.

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Studies in Church History , Volume 13: The Orthodox Churches and the West , 1976 , pp. 169 - 181
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Copyright © Ecclesiastical History Society 1976

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34 Janauschek p 227; Brown pp93-4 suggests that Zaraca may have been transferred to the Cistercian order on the initiative of Geoffrey de Villehardouin.

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54 Ibid p 114. In 1227 the chaplain of the Cistercian convent of St Antony of Paris visited the nuns of his order in Greece. Compare the suggestion of Manrique (4 p 341) that he was there to institute their chaplains in their houses and to inspire them, with his sermons, with the severe attitude taken by the general chapter towards nuns in the west described by Southern, Western Society pp 314-18.

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59 Riant, Des Dépouilles Religieuses p 6.

60 Ibid p 27; Frolow, La déviation de la IVe croisade pp 59, 65-71 for a discussion of the recrudescence of the Cult of the Passion which stimulated the collection of relics.

61 Riant, Des Dépouilles Religieuses p 185.

62 Ibid p 184.

63 Riant, Exuviae 2 pp 144-49; Brown pp 112, 115.

64 Riant, Exuviae 2 pp 147-49.

65 Ibid p 149.

66 Beer, Villehardouin p 24. He regarded covoitise as one of the greatest disasters of the expedition. Villehardouin, La Conquête p 253 ‘li uns aporta bien et li autres mauvaise-ment; que covoitise qui est racine de toz mals, ne laissa: ainz comencierent d’enqui ennavant U covotous a retenir des choses et Nostre Sire les commença mains a amer’. Clari, Robert de, Tlie Conquest of Constantinople, ed Lauer, P. (Paris 1924) pp 101-12Google Scholar, also complains of the crusaders’ cupidity for the quemun de ľost got only the leavings of the rifees hommes. Also Frolow, La déviation de la IVe croisade, p 53.

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