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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818292103321

Autore

Bruun Mette Birkedal

Titolo

Parables : Bernard of Clairvaux's mapping of spiritual topography / / by Mette B. Bruun

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2007

ISBN

1-281-45797-3

9786611457976

90-474-1156-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (360 p.)

Collana

Brill's studies in intellectual history ; ; v. 148

Disciplina

271/.1202

Soggetti

Spiritual life - Catholic Church

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-327) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / M. Birkedal Bruun -- Introduction / M. Birkedal Bruun -- Chapter One. Mappings / M. Birkedal Bruun -- Chapter Two. Topographies / M. Birkedal Bruun -- Chapter Three. Topographical Anthropology / M. Birkedal Bruun -- Chapter Four. Memory / M. Birkedal Bruun -- Chapter Five. Conclusion And Transition / M. Birkedal Bruun -- Chapter One. Introduction / M. Birkedal Bruun -- Chapter Two. Parabola I, De Filio Regis / M. Birkedal Bruun -- Chapter Three. Parabola II, De Conflictu Duorum Regum / M. Birkedal Bruun -- Chapter Four. Parabola III, De Filio Regis Sedente Super Equum / M. Birkedal Bruun -- Chapter Five. Parabola IV, De Ecclesia Quae Captiva Erat In Aegypto / M. Birkedal Bruun -- Chapter Six. Parabola V, De Tribus Filiabus Regis / M. Birkedal Bruun -- Chapter Seven. Parabola VI, De Aethiopissa Quam Filius Regis Duxit Uxorem / M. Birkedal Bruun -- Chapter Eight. Parabola VII, De Octo Beatitudinibus / M. Birkedal Bruun -- Chapter Nine. Parabola VIII, De Rege Et Servo Quem Dilexit / M. Birkedal Bruun -- Epilogue / M. Birkedal Bruun -- Bibliography / M. Birkedal Bruun -- General Index / M. Birkedal Bruun -- Index Of Bernard Texts / M. Birkedal Bruun.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume is a study of spatial structures in Bernard of Clairvaux’s Parables . It lays out a spiritual topography which is linked to the rumination of the Bible. The topography ranges across such locations



as Paradise, Babylon, the bridegroom's chamber, and the Celestial Jerusalem, and man navigates it in the character of peregrinus and viator . The first part of the study addresses the spiritual topography and the hermeneutics of its mapping. The second and larger part examines each of Bernard's eight parables and the ways in which he reformulates issues central to monastic tradition – militia Christi , for example, God's image and likeness in man, contemptus mundi , the quest for beatitude – as voyages within spiritual landscapes.