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Name: Bernard of Clairvaux, St.
Birth Date: 1090
Death Date: 1153
Nationality: French
Gender: Male
Occupations: saint, monk, abbot, theologian

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Biography of Bernard of Clairvaux, St.
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The French churchman St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) was a Cistercian monk and founder and abbot of the monastery of Clairvaux. A theologian and Doctor of the Church, he dominated Europe through his eloquence and his counselling of popes and...
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Biography of Bernard of Clairvaux
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Bernard of Clairvaux is one of the most influential figures in the latter half of the Middle Ages, and one of the most paradoxical. Even Bernard thought of himself as “the chimera of his century.” He was first and foremost a Cistercian monk...


Quotations
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Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
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St. Bernard of Clairvaux ( 1090 – 1153-08-21 ), abbot of Clairvaux , was a highly influential French churchman and theologian. He was one of the founders of the Cistercian , or Bernardine, monastic order. Contents 1 Sourced 2 Unsourced 3 Criticism 4...


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Bernard Of Clairvaux : Medieval France
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(1090/91–1153). Born in Fontaines near Dijon and educated with the canons of Saint-Vorles in Châtillon-sur-Seine, Bernard entered the Cistercian monastery of Cîteaux, together with thirty companions, in 1112. In 1115, he founded the...
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Bernard of Clairvaux Summary
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BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX (1090–1153), monastic reformer, abbot of the Cistercian monastery of Clairvaux, France. Bernard is known principally through four biographical accounts written in his own century (which contain more legend than fact),...
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Bernard of Clairvaux, St. (1090–1153) Summary
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Bernard of Clairvaux, St.(1090–1153) St. Bernard of Clairvaux, the monastic reformer and theologian, was born of a noble family at Fontaine, France, near Dijon. He became a Cistercian at Cîteaux in 1112 and founding abbot of Clairvaux in...
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Bernard of Clairvaux Information
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Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, O.Cist (1090 - August 21, 1153) was a French abbot and the primary builder of the reforming Cistercian monastic order. "The voice of conscience, the dominating figure in the Catholic Church from 1125 to 1153"[1], his...


News and Journals
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Anglican Theological Review
Bernard of Clairvaux
07/01/2002: 703 words, approx. 2 pages
Bernard of Clairvaux. By Gillian R. Evans. Great Medieval Thinkers Series. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. viii + 220 pp. $19.95 (paper). The expanse of time between the Patristic era and the Reformation remains for many in the Anglican communion terra incognita,...
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The Catholic Historical Review
Bernard of Clairvaux: On the Life of the Mind/Bernard of Clairvaux: On the Spirituality of Relationship
01/01/2005: 1,007 words, approx. 3 pages
Bernard of Clairvaux: On the Life of the Mind. By John R. Sommerfeldt. (Mahwah, New Jersey: Newman Press/Paulist Press. 2004. Pp. xviii, 197. $19.95 paperback.) Bernard of Clairvaux: On the Spirituality of Relationship. By John R. Sommerfeldt. (Mahwah, New Jersey: Newman Press/Paulist Press....
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Thomas Merton
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In the following excerpt, Merton discusses Bernard's ideas regarding the active, contemplative, and apostolic lives in his Sermons on the Song of Songs.
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Critical Essay by Jean Leclercq
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In the following essay, Leclercq surveys scholarship on Bernard's life and major writings in the 800 years after his death and reflects on the sociological, psychological, and linguistic possibilities for further research.
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Critical Essay by G. L. J. Smerillo
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In the following essay, Smerillo explores the idea of Deus caritas est–God is love—as presented in Bernard's first twenty-one letters.
 


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