Introduction -- 1. Spirituality of regular canons in the twelfth century -- 2. Cistercian conception of community -- 3. Did the twelfth century discover the individual? -- 4. Jesus as mother and abbot as mother: some themes in twelfth-century Cistercian writing -- 5. Women mystics in the thirteenth century: the case of the nuns of Helfta -- Appendix: Monastic and canonical treatises of practical spiritual advice.
