02775nam 2200541 450 991082256350332120210830050152.01-5017-5104-210.1515/9781501751554(CKB)5590000000001862(OCoLC)1140351688(MdBmJHUP)muse85332(MiAaPQ)EBC6027395(DE-B1597)546023(DE-B1597)9781501751554(StDuBDS)EDZ0002535270(PPN)256679630(EXLCZ)99559000000000186220210416e20212020 fy| 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBernard of Clairvaux an inner life /Brian Patrick McGuireIthaca :Cornell University Press,2021.1 online resource (1 online resource)Cornell scholarship onlinePreviously issued in print: 2020.1-5017-5154-9 1-5017-5155-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Cornell scholarship online.Christian saintsFranceBiographyChurch history11th centuryMonasticism, Cistercian abbots, papal schism of 1130s, monastic spirituality, difficult saint, Bernard the monster.Christian saintsChurch history271.1202McGuire Brian Patrick1150077StDuBDSStDuBDSBOOK9910822563503321Bernard of Clairvaux4022525UNINA