Collectaneum exemplorum ac visionum Clarevallense

• Medieval Latin literature
• Cistercians
• Early Medieval Christian theology (c. 650-1200)

“Olivier Legendre is to be commended for his remarkable edition of the earliest known Cistercian exempla collection. His work is a model for future editions: it is accurate, erudite, and well presented. Readers will find in it a great mine of information on twelfth-century Cistercian culture.”

(St. Mula, in Cistercian Studies Quarterly, 41, 2006, p. 256-257)

“The ‘Collectaneum Claraevallense’ remains an unique manifestation of the interior life and concerns of Clairvaux in the last decades of the twelfth century. It is now available and accessible to a scholarly audience in a new way, and Olivier Legendre is to be thanked for making this possible. His enthusiasm, care, and devotion are exemplary.”

(B. P. McGuire, in Cîteaux, 57, 2006, p. 164)

“This new jewel in the crown of the Corpus Christianorum will be invaluable not only to historians of the early Cistercians and their world, but, more generally, to all those students of pre-modern religious movements (...) who remain fascinated by the elusive process of transition by which lived experience finds its way, srage by stage, through oral report, into written record - changing the running water of history into the kind of ice we mortals can walk upon.”

(A. Murray, in Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 59, 2008, p. 121-122)

"Olivier Legendre's masterly edition of the Collectaneum exemplorum et visionum Clarevallense makes accessible one of the earliest and most interesting of the Cistercian compilations." (M. G. Newman in: Speculum, July 2008, p. 724)

"La toute nouvelle collection des « Exempla Medii Aevi » se dote, avec le Collectaneum exemplorum et visionum Clarevallense, d’un nouveau volume édité avec toute la rigueur et l’érudition que l’on pouvait espérer." (Christine Boyer dans Revue Mabillon, 17, 2006, p. 324-325)