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Norbert and Early Norbertine Spirituality. Selected and introduced by Theodore J. Antry O. Praem, and Carol Neel. [The Classics of Western Spirituality] (Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press. 2007. Pp. xvi, 309. $27.95 paperback. ISBN 978-0-809-14468-6.)
This book is long overdue. As Carol Neel and Theodore Antry point out in the introduction to their book Norbert and Early Norbertine Spirituality, studies of Norbert of Xanten and the Premonstratensians are "conspicuously underrepresented in modern scholarship" (p. 1). Ss. Bernard of Clairvaux, Hildegard of Bingen, and Francis of Assisi have long been the subject of historical analysis, and more recent studies have focused on Robert of Arbrissel and the wandering preachers of the twelfth century. By selecting and translating seven texts that illuminate Norbert and the Premonstratensian order, the editors provide...