Aelred of Rievaulx's De Institutione Inclusarum: Two Middle English Translations

Ayto John, Barratt Alexandra (eds.). — London; New York; Toronto: Oxford University Press: 1984. — 256 p. — (Early English Text Society. Original Series 287).Aelred of Rievaulx, one of the leading and most influential figures of early English Cistercianism, was born at Hexham and died at Rievaulx Abbey, of which he had been abbot for some twenty years, on 12th January 1167. He left behind him, as well as a distinguished reputation as an active and compassionate churchman both within the confines of his own order and in a wider national context, a corpus of writings that is the finest literary and philosophical product of the Cistercian order in medieval England.