Bernard and Clairvaux: Between Cult and History

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 21 mrt 2001 - 336 pagina's
 

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Introduction
1
Bernard as Portrayed in His Own Writings and in His Hagiography
3
The Context of the Twelfth Century
9
The Distorted View of Bernard in Our Time and the Purpose of This Study
16
Saint Bernard The Origin of His Cult in the Cistercian Order and His Canonization
23
Bernards Contemporary Hagiography
25
The Night Vision of Mother Aleth
29
The Earliest Version of the Vita Prima Preparation and Writing
33
Saint Bernard and the Historians
141
Bernard as the Idealogist of Papal Theocracy
145
The Hagiographic Tradition and the Enlightened Resistance against It
160
A The Reception of the Vita Prima
162
B Reformation Enlightenment Romanticism and Restauration
173
The Chimera of the Twentieth Century
186
Jerusalem Searched in the Light of Lamps Bernard in His Monastic Umwelt
194
Bernard Citeaux 1113113334
201

The First Request for Canonization
43
Godfrieds Text Revision of the Vita Prima
46
The vita Secunda and Its Relationship to the Vita Prima
53
The Canonization in 1174
55
Bernard as Saint in the Cistercian Hagiography of the Twelfth Century
61
The Criteria for Sainthood in the Vita Prima
62
The Silence regarding Posthumously Performed Miracles
65
From Abbot to Teacher A Shifting Ideal of Sainthood
73
The Defense of Bernards Sainthood
77
The Authors of the Vita Prima
90
Geoffrey of Auxerre
91
Arnold of Bonneval
102
A Did Bernard Write to Arnold from His Deathbed?
104
B Arnolds Contribution to the Vita Prima
112
William of SaintThierry
118
A His First Contacts with Bernard
119
B The Continuing Relationship between William and Bernard
127
C William of SaintThierrys Contribution Reevaluated
133
B Clairvaux besides Citeaux
212
2 Bernard and Cluny
218
B The Relationship between Bernard and Peter the Venerable
227
C Nicholas of Montieramy as Intermediary
239
Its Expansion and Spiritual Significance
248
A The Expansion of Clairvaux
249
B The Indirect Role of Bernard in This Expansion
256
C Clairvaux as the Home of the Poor in Christ
263
D Clairvaux as the Entrance to the Heavenly Jerusalem
267
Rachel and Leah
276
Chronological Summary 10751174
282
Summary of Some of the Textual Problems Discussed in This Book
288
Bibliography
291
2 Sources
294
3 Books Monographs Articles
295
Index
314
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