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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822563503321

Autore

McGuire Brian Patrick

Titolo

Bernard of Clairvaux : an inner life / / Brian Patrick McGuire

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2021

ISBN

1-5017-5104-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Collana

Cornell scholarship online

Disciplina

271.1202

Soggetti

Christian saints - France

Church history - 11th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction. In Pursuit of a Difficult Saint -- A Time of Hope and Change -- A Saint's Origins -- From the New Monastery to the Valley of Light, 1115-1124 -- Monastic Commitment and Church Politics, 1124-1129 -- Towards Reformation of Church and Monastery -- Healing a Divided Church, 1130-35 -- Victory and Defeat: A Conflicted Church, 1136-40 -- The World after the Schism: One Thing after Another, 1140-45 -- Preaching a Crusade and Leaving Miracles Behind, 1146-1150 -- Business as Usual in Preparing for Death -- Fifteen Questions about Bernard: The Background for My Portrait.

Sommario/riassunto

This intimate portrait of one of the Middle Ages' most consequential men, delves into the life of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux to offer a refreshing interpretation that finds within this grand historical figure a deeply spiritual human being who longed for the reflective quietude of the monastery even as he helped shape the destiny of a church and a continent. Heresy and crusade, politics and papacies, theology and disputation shaped this astonishing man's life, and this book presents it all.