Sermons on the Final Verses of the Song of Songs Volume VII

John of Ford

• Hardcover | Engels | Cistercian Fathers | nr. 47
• John completed the sermon-meditations on the Song of Songs which had been begun by Bernard of Clairvaux and continued by Gilbert of Hoyland. In one-hu... Lees meer

In Praise of the New Knighthood

Bernard of Clairvaux

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Fathers | nr. 19
• The monk and the knight--the two quintessentially medieval European heroes--were combined in the Knights Templar and in the other military orders foun... Lees meer

Exposition on the Epistle to the Romans

William of Saint-Thierry

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Fathers | nr. 27
• The Epistle to the Romans was a favorite text of medieval commentators, especially in an age concerned with the theology of grace. William of Saint Th... Lees meer

The Letters of Adam of Perseigne

Adam of Perseigne

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Fathers | nr. 21
• Abbot of the Cistercian monastery at Perseigne, Adam was a 'director of souls' in the late twelfth century. By his letters he counselled clerics and k... Lees meer

The Life of Beatrice of Nazareth

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Fathers | nr. 50
• The life and mystical experiences of an intelligent and artistic thirteenth-century flemish nun are described in this contemporary biography, drawn fr... Lees meer

Cistercians and Cluniacs

Idung of Prüfening

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Fathers | nr. 33
• Two works by a Benedictine become Cistercian provide an informative and entertaining, if not always edifying, exchange of accusations between a Black ... Lees meer

Sermons on the Song of Songs, Volume 1

Gilbert of Hoyland

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Fathers | nr. 14
• Taking up Saint Bernard's unfinished sermon-commentary, Gilbert ruminates on verse 3:1-5:10 in forty-eight sermons, leaving the task to be finished by... Lees meer

Three Treatises on Man

Bernard McGinn

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Fathers | nr. 24
• Three treatises by twelfth-century Cistercians, who reflect on the human person as the image of God and capax Dei, capable of God, of being reformed t... Lees meer

Sermons on the Song of Songs Volume 4

Bernard of Clairvaux

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Fathers | nr. 40
• These eighty-six sermons are among the most famous and most beautiful examples of medieval scriptural exegesis. In them the modern reader can catch a ... Lees meer

Treatises and Pastoral Prayer

Aelred of Rievaulx

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Fathers | nr. 2
• Aelred entered the newly founded abbey of Rievaulx in 1133, after serving at the Scottish royal court. As novice master and abbot, this 'Bernard of th... Lees meer

Sermons on the Song of Songs, Volume 2

Gilbert of Hoyland

• Hardcover | Engels | Cistercian Fathers | nr. 20
• Taking up Saint Bernard's unfinished sermon-commentary, Gilbert ruminates on verse 3:1-5:10 in forty-eight sermons, leaving the task to be finished by... Lees meer

Sermons on Conversion

Bernard of Clairvaux

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Fathers | nr. 25
• The burgundian reformer abbot draws a picture of the perfect frontier bishop, and holds him up as a model for bishops everywhere. Conversion is used h... Lees meer

The Liturgical Sermons

Aelred of Rievaulx

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Fathers
• Aelred (1110-1167) served Rievaulx Abbey, the second Cistercian monastery in England, for twenty years as abbot. During his abbacy he wrote thirteen t... Lees meer

Homilies in Praise of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Bernard of Clairvaux

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Fathers | nr. 18
• To sing the praises of Mary, Bernard studies and contemplates her there where God has so perfectly revealed her, in the Scriptures, taking as his text... Lees meer

Sermons on the Final Verses of the Song of Songs

John Of Ford

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Fathers | nr. 29
• In completing the sermon-commentary begun by Bernard and continued by Gilbert of Hoyland, John 'emerges as a lively and original commentator, writing ... Lees meer

Seven Unpublished Works

Serlo of Savigny, Serlo of Wilton

• Hardcover | Engels | Cistercian Fathers | nr. 48
• Two little-known Cistercian abbots of the twelfth century are introduced to English readers: Serlo of Savigny (d. 1158), the abbot general of the Savi... Lees meer

Sermons on the Final Verses of the Song of Songs Volume II

John of Ford

• Hardcover | Engels | Cistercian Fathers | nr. 39
• John completed the sermon-meditations on the Song of Songs which had been begun by Bernard of Clairvaux and continued by Gilbert of Hoyland. In one-hu... Lees meer

Homilies in Praise of Blessed Mary

Amadeus of Lausanne

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Fathers
• Educated at the abbeys of Bonnevaux and Cluny and at the court of his kinsman, Conrad of Hohenstaufen, Amadeus became a monk of Clairvaux in 1125, jus... Lees meer

Sermons for the Autumn Season

Bernard of Clairvaux

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Fathers | nr. 54
• On the anniversary of the dedication of the monastery church at Clairvaux, Saint Bernard spoke to the community to explain the meaning of the feast: "... Lees meer

The Memorial of the Abundance of the Divine Sweetness

Gertrud the Great of Helfta

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Fathers
• Gertrud the Great (1256-1302) entered the monastery of Helfta in eastern Germany as a child oblate. At the age of twenty-five she underwent a conversi... Lees meer

Five Books on Consideration: Advice to a Pope

Bernard of Clairvaux

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Fathers | nr. 37
• Always a vigorous champion of papal reforms, Bernard of Clairvaux toward the end of his life saw one of his own monks raised to the papal throne as Eu... Lees meer

Treatises, Epistles, and Sermons

Gilbert of Hoyland

• Hardcover | Engels | Cistercian Fathers | nr. 34
• To encounter a person who makes holiness attractive is an enviable experience. Such a person was Gilbert of Hoyland, abbot of the Cistercian monastery... Lees meer

Sermons on the Song of Songs Volume 3

Bernard of Clairvaux

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Fathers | nr. 31
• These eighty-six sermons are among the most famous and most beautiful examples of medieval scriptural exegesis. In them the modern reader can catch a ... Lees meer

The Lives of the Northern Saints

Aelred of Rievaulx

• Paperback | Engels | Cistercian Fathers | nr. 71
• A saintly twelfth-century abbot, born to a family of hereditary priests family in Hexham, Northumbria, and raised at the Scottish royal court, recount... Lees meer