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Bernard of Clairvaux: Selected Works (The Classics of Western Spirituality) (English and Latin Edition)

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Born in Fontaines-lès-Dijon in 1090, Bernard had grow to be, by his twenty-fifth birthday, the abbot of a Cistercian monastery which he had founded within the valley of Clairvaux near Aube, France, some four years in advance. There in those isolated and rugged surroundings he became the spokesman for a revival of monastic life in an age when the radical spirit of religious life was once endangered by a movement, very best seen within the excesses of the monks of Cluny, that stressed the adaptation of the rule of St. Benedict to the exigencies-and taste for princely comforts-of the royal courts of twelfth-century France.

But Bernard’s dedication to the strict observance of Benedict’s rule was once mingled not with the abrasive, shrill style of the prophet but with a sweetness and purity of vision that earned him the title Doctor mellifluous. For he possessed a sense of the love of God, the importance of humility, and the sheer great thing about holiness that has made his writings favorites of scholars and laymen alike all through the ages. Here in a new translation by G.R. Evans are the writings that have had any such major role in shaping the Western monastic tradition and influencing the development of catholic mystical theology. Along with an introduction by the master of Bernard studies, Jean Leclercq, they comprise a volume that occupies a spot of special importance within the chronicle of the history of the Western spiritual adventure.

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