A companion to Bernard of Clairvaux /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
Description:	1 online resource (xviii, 405 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Brill's companions to the Christian tradition ; v. 25 Brill's companions to the Christian tradition ; v. 25.
Subject:	Bernard, -- of Clairvaux, Saint, -- 1090 or 1091-1153. Bernard, -- of Clairvaux, Saint, -- 1090 or 1091-1153 Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11263044

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Other authors / contributors:	McGuire, Brian Patrick.
ISBN:	9789004211988 9004211985 128316129X 9781283161299 9789004201392 9004201394
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Bernard of Clairvaux emerges from these studies as a vibrant, challenging and illuminating representative of the monastic culture of the twelfth century. In taking on Peter Abelard and the new scholasticism he helped define the very world he opposed and thus contributed to the renaissance of the twelfth century.
Other form:	Print version: Companion to Bernard of Clairvaux. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011 9789004201392
Standard no.:	10.1163/ej.9789004201392.i-406

Table of Contents:

Bernard's life and works : a review / Brian Patrick McGuire
Reading Saint Bernard : the man, the medium, the message / Michael Casey
Bernard and William of Saint Thierry / E. Rozanne Elder
Bernard of Clairvaux and Peter Abelard / Constant J. Mews
Bernard as a Father Abbot / Christopher Holdsworth
Bernard the writer / M.B. Pranger
Bernard of Clairvaux and the landscape of salvation / Mette B. Bruun
Bernard of Clairvaux and Christian art / Diane J. Reilly
The heritage of Saint Bernard in medieval art / James France
An old man's tale : my many years with Saint Bernard of Clairvaux / Chrysogonus Waddell
Afterword : looking back at Bernard / John R. Sommerfeldt.

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