Intro: Cistercian Worlds

​Cistercian Worlds is a two-day conference aimed at bringing together current voices – both established and new – in Cistercian scholarship. The Cistercians (plural) undoubtedly inhabited, and were shaped by, many different ‘worlds’. Papers here attest to the variety and diversity of these experiences as Cistercian individuals, ideas and institutions simultaneously constructed, co-existed with, and were circumscribed by, the structures and spheres, real and imagined, of Medieval society: art and architecture, power, liturgy, history writing, gender, geography, landscapes and topography, law, psychology, medicine, patrons, theology, and networks, among others. We hope that Cistercian Worlds, overall, will help raise awareness of the diversity of approaches and exciting conversations currently taking place within the ever-expanding universe of Cistercian scholarship.
 
​Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow & Jack Ford, conference organisers