Norbert And Early Norbertine Spirituality

About the book: This volume - Norbert and Early Nobertine Spirituality (2007) - in the prestigious Classics of Western Spirituality series offers in translation with introductions, significant works written in the first generation of the founding in the twelfth century of the Canons Regular of Prémontré (also known as the Premonstratensians or Norbertines after their founder, Norbert of Xanten). 

From the many twelfth century works and authors of the Order, the translators-authors of the introductions of this work have chosen those writers who knew Norbert personally. 

This volume presents for the first time in English the two medieval vitae of Norbert (one in its totality and the other by significant selections). 

The other texts chosen and their introductions contextualize Norbert and his foundation within areas of study, such as medieval controversies between monks and canons, the situation of religious women, the instruction of the clergy, and the conversion of members of the nobility to religious life under the impulse of the Gregorian Reform. +

About the editors: Reverend Theodore J Antry, OPraem, entered the Nobertine Order in 1957 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1966. He holds an MA in Latin from Marquette University and a PhD in medieval studies from the University of Notre Dame. He is currently the archivist for Daylesford Abbey in Paoli, Pennsylvania. He is a member of the order's international Spirituality Commission and an associate member of its Historical Commission. Antry's published work includes an edition of the medical work of the fourteenth-century Premonstratensian Thomas of Sarepta.

Carol Neel, who holds a PhD in history from Cornell University, is professor of history at Colorado College, Colorado Springs where she has taught since 1980. She holds a BA in Latin from Bryn Mawr College and a PhD in history from Cornell University. She has written about the history of women and the family int he Middle Ages as well as about the medieval Premonstratensians. Among her prior publications is a translation of the Handbook of the ninth-century noblewoman Dhuoda. She lives with her husband and four children on a mountainside in Colorado Springs.