Table of Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I: In Quest of Bernard
J. LECLERCQ, Toward a Sociological
Interpretation of the Various Saint Bernards
P. PHILLIPS, The Presence-and Absence- of Bernard of Clairvaux in
the Twelfth-century Chronicles
M. CASEY, Towards a Methodology for the Vita prima: Translating
the First Life into Biography
Part II: Bernard's Thought
J. R. SOMMERFELDT, Bernard as Contemplative
B. PRANGER, The Concept of Death in Bernard's Sermons on the
Song of Songs
L. ANDERSON, The Rhetorical Epistemology in Saint Bernard's Super
Cantica
E. STIEGMAN, A Tradition of Aesthetics in Saint Bernard
B. M. KIENZLE, Verbum Dei et verba Bernardi: The Function of
Language in Bernard's Second Sermon for Peter and Paul
D. FARKASFALVY, The use of Paul by Bernard as Illustrated by Saint
Bernard's Interpretation of Philippians 3, 13
F. KLINE, Saint Bernard and the Rule of Saint Benedict: An
Introduction
Part III: Bernard and His Fellow Cistercians
T. DAVIS, A Further Study of the
Brevis Commentatio
M. L. DUTTON, The Face and Feet of God: The Humanity of Christ in
Bernard of Clairvaux and Aelred of Rievaulx
E. CONNOR, Saint Bernard's Three Steps of Truth and Saint Aelred
of Rievaulx's Three Loves
M. P. CLINTON, Bernard of Clairvaux and Gilbert of Hoyland on
the Song of Songs
D. N. BELL, Certitudo fidei: Faith, Reason, and Authority in the
Writings of Baldwin of Forde
E. OXENHAM, 'Under the Apple Tree': A Comparative Exegesis of the
Song of Songs 2, 3 in the Sermons of Bernard of Clairvaux and
John of Ford
Part IV: Bernard and His Contemporaries
F. R. SWIETEK, The Role of Bernard
of Clairvaux in the Union of Savigny with Cîteaux : A Reconsideration
C. H. BERMAN, The Development of Cistercian Economic Practice
During th Lifetime of Bernard of Clairvaux: The Historical Perspective
and Innocent II's 1132 Privilege
A. H. BREDERO, Saint Bernard in His Relations with Peter the
Venerable
H. FEISS, The Correspondence of Bernard of Clairvaux and Hugh
of Saint Victor on Baptism
Part V: The Influence of Saint Bernard
C. WADDELL, The Clairvaux Saint Bernard
Office: Ikon of a Saint
B. McGINN, Alter Moyses: The Role of Bernard of Clairvaux in the
Thought of Joachim of Fiore
M. D. JORDAN, Thomas Aquinas on Bernard and the Life of Contemplation
W. A. FRANK, Sine proprio: On Liberty and Christ, A Juxtaposition
of Bernard of Clairvaux and John Duns Scotus
J. FRANCE, From Bernard to Bridget: Cistercian Contribution to
a Unique Scandinavian Monastic Body
R. D. DILORENZO, Dante's Saint Bernard and the Theology of Liberty
in the Commedia
F. POSSET, Divus Bernhardus: Saint Bernard as Spiritual and Theological
Mentor of the Reformer Martin Luther
A. N. S. LANE, Bernard of Clairvaux: A Forerunner of John Calvin ?
A. J. KRAILSHEIMER, Bernard and Rancé
C. FRIENDLANDER, Saint Bernard and the Trappists in the Nineteenth
and Twentieth Centuries
M. B. PENNINGTON, Like Father, Like son: Bernard of Clairvaux and
Thomas Merton