{"title":"St. Bernard of Clairvaux","description":"\u003cp\u003eEvery Sanctified Souls Heritage Edition by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, first abbot of Clairvaux, of the Cistercian Order, Doctor of the Church, whom later ages named the Mellifluous Doctor for the sweetness of his teaching.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"bernard-short-treatises","title":"Short Treatises: On Loving God, Humility and Pride, Grace and Free Will","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhy God is to be loved, and in what measure: the four degrees of love, the twelve steps of humility, and what belongs to grace.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin:1.6em 0 .7em;\"\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.ingramspark.com\/b\/084?params=NcAHiaA8Z3Lrm4JhYk9nO5n6hM9zgCiMAA32122wJ5w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"display:inline-block;text-decoration:none;font-weight:700;font-size:15px;letter-spacing:.06em;text-transform:uppercase;padding:16px 32px;margin:0 12px 12px 0;border:2px solid #3D2E1E;background:#3D2E1E;color:#F8F4EA;\"\u003eBuy the Paperback\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.ingramspark.com\/b\/084?params=90B3hlvC5MYdcRSEp6Q2WqtVuPlLvuX5XGyGiccPl6d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"display:inline-block;text-decoration:none;font-weight:700;font-size:15px;letter-spacing:.06em;text-transform:uppercase;padding:16px 32px;margin:0 12px 12px 0;border:2px solid #3D2E1E;background:transparent;color:#3D2E1E;\"\u003eBuy the Hardcover\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp style=\"font-size:13px;line-height:1.6;color:#8a7a63;margin:0 0 1.9em;\"\u003eOrders are placed and shipped through IngramSpark. This page is a catalogue listing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout this edition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSaint Bernard of Clairvaux (c. 1090–1153), first abbot of Clairvaux and the most compelling voice of his age, was named by later ages the Mellifluous Doctor for the sweetness of his teaching, above all on the love of God. This volume gathers three of his short treatises, each complete and unabridged.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eOn Loving God\u003c\/em\u003e he answers why God is to be loved and in what measure, and traces the soul through the four degrees of love. In \u003cem\u003eOn the Steps of Humility and Pride\u003c\/em\u003e he charts the ascent of humility and the descent of pride along a ladder of twelve degrees, drawn from the Rule of Saint Benedict. In \u003cem\u003eOn Grace and Free Will\u003c\/em\u003e he weighs, with care and precision, what belongs to the grace of God and what to the freedom of the human will.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNewly set on cream paper, for reading and keeping.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSaint Bernard of Clairvaux (c. 1090–1153), first abbot of Clairvaux, of the Cistercian Order, Doctor of the Church, the Mellifluous Doctor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTranslated by Marianne C. and Coventry Patmore (\u003cem\u003eOn Loving God\u003c\/em\u003e, 1881), Barton R. V. Mills (\u003cem\u003eOn the Steps of Humility and Pride\u003c\/em\u003e, 1929), and Watkin W. Williams (\u003cem\u003eOn Grace and Free Will\u003c\/em\u003e, 1920)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThree works, complete and unabridged: \u003cem\u003eDe Diligendo Deo\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eDe Gradibus Humilitatis et Superbiae\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eDe Gratia et Libero Arbitrio\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSanctified Souls, Heritage Editions · Saint Bernard, Book One\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 132 pages, cream paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:13px;line-height:1.6;color:#8a7a63;margin:1.6em 0 0;\"\u003eCover: \u003cem\u003eThe Virgin Appearing to Saint Bernard of Clairvaux\u003c\/em\u003e, pen and brown ink with brown and gray wash over red chalk by Niccolò Ricciolini (Italian, 1687–1772). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Public domain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr style=\"border:0;border-top:1px solid #e4dccd;margin:2.2em 0 1.6em;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin:1.6em 0 .7em;\"\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.ingramspark.com\/b\/084?params=NcAHiaA8Z3Lrm4JhYk9nO5n6hM9zgCiMAA32122wJ5w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"display:inline-block;text-decoration:none;font-weight:700;font-size:15px;letter-spacing:.06em;text-transform:uppercase;padding:16px 32px;margin:0 12px 12px 0;border:2px solid #3D2E1E;background:#3D2E1E;color:#F8F4EA;\"\u003eBuy the Paperback\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.ingramspark.com\/b\/084?params=90B3hlvC5MYdcRSEp6Q2WqtVuPlLvuX5XGyGiccPl6d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"display:inline-block;text-decoration:none;font-weight:700;font-size:15px;letter-spacing:.06em;text-transform:uppercase;padding:16px 32px;margin:0 12px 12px 0;border:2px solid #3D2E1E;background:transparent;color:#3D2E1E;\"\u003eBuy the Hardcover\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp style=\"font-size:13px;line-height:1.6;color:#8a7a63;margin:0 0 1.9em;\"\u003eOrders are placed and shipped through IngramSpark. 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This page is a catalogue listing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout this edition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSaint Bernard of Clairvaux (c. 1090–1153), first abbot of Clairvaux and the most compelling voice of his age, was named by later ages the Mellifluous Doctor for the sweetness of his teaching. \u003cem\u003eOn Consideration\u003c\/em\u003e is the last and most personal of his works, written in five books during his final years to Pope Eugenius III, a Cistercian who had once been his own monk at Clairvaux.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a father's counsel to a son buried under the business of the Apostolic See. Amid the ceaseless press of causes, appeals, and petitioners, Bernard pleads with the Pope not to lose himself, but to reserve time for consideration, that is, for the recollected gaze of the mind: a gaze that begins with oneself, and rises through the things below and around us to the contemplation of God. Along the way he weighs the nature of the papal office, the reform of the Roman court, the meaning of the “two swords,” and the ascent of the soul to God, in pages that have been read and pondered by popes and contemplatives ever since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis Sanctified Souls Press edition presents the complete treatise, with the Prologue and all five Books in the author's own division, in the English translation George Lewis prepared for the Clarendon Press in 1908. Newly set on cream paper, for reading and keeping.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSaint Bernard of Clairvaux (c. 1090–1153), first abbot of Clairvaux, of the Cistercian Order, Doctor of the Church, the Mellifluous Doctor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTranslated by George Lewis, Oxford, at the Clarendon Press, 1908\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eComplete and unabridged: the Prologue and all five Books, in the author's own division\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSanctified Souls, Heritage Editions · Saint Bernard, Book Two\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 126 pages, cream paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:13px;line-height:1.6;color:#8a7a63;margin:1.6em 0 0;\"\u003eCover: \u003cem\u003eS. Bernard, abbé\u003c\/em\u003e, etching by Jacques Callot (French, 1592–1635) from \u003cem\u003eLes Images de Tous les Saincts et Saintes de l'Année\u003c\/em\u003e, engraved for the twentieth of August, Bernard's feast. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Public domain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr style=\"border:0;border-top:1px solid #e4dccd;margin:2.2em 0 1.6em;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin:1.6em 0 .7em;\"\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.ingramspark.com\/b\/084?params=CXKC1lI2E8UTsHBjVn3CxTxcH7vmNhfSJwGWTj8WoAi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"display:inline-block;text-decoration:none;font-weight:700;font-size:15px;letter-spacing:.06em;text-transform:uppercase;padding:16px 32px;margin:0 12px 12px 0;border:2px solid #3D2E1E;background:#3D2E1E;color:#F8F4EA;\"\u003eBuy the Paperback\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.ingramspark.com\/b\/084?params=LkEJoJlSx8Nebe0rNIOjY85sGWcAkYm5r3wm1pJ2QdM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"display:inline-block;text-decoration:none;font-weight:700;font-size:15px;letter-spacing:.06em;text-transform:uppercase;padding:16px 32px;margin:0 12px 12px 0;border:2px solid #3D2E1E;background:transparent;color:#3D2E1E;\"\u003eBuy the Hardcover\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp style=\"font-size:13px;line-height:1.6;color:#8a7a63;margin:0 0 1.9em;\"\u003eOrders are placed and shipped through IngramSpark. 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Write to the press and we will let you know the day it goes on sale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:13px;line-height:1.6;color:#8a7a63;margin:0 0 1.9em;\"\u003eOn release, each volume is ordered separately, and orders are placed and shipped through IngramSpark. This page is a catalogue listing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout this edition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSaint Bernard of Clairvaux (c. 1090–1153), first abbot of Clairvaux and the most compelling voice of his age, was named by later ages the Mellifluous Doctor for the sweetness of his teaching. His \u003cem\u003eSermons on the Song of Songs\u003c\/em\u003e are the longest and most celebrated of his works, and one of the summits of Christian mystical writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeginning about the year 1135 and continuing until his death, Bernard took the Song of Songs, the marriage-song of Solomon, and read in it the whole history of the soul's love for God: the kiss of the mouth, the fragrance of the Bridegroom, the bed of flowers, the wound of love. Preached to his monks and set down sermon by sermon, the work is at once a verse-by-verse commentary, a school of contemplative prayer, and the self-portrait of a soul on fire with the love it describes. He was expounding it still, having reached only the third chapter of the Canticle, when he laid down his pen for the last time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis Sanctified Souls Press edition presents all eighty-six sermons complete and unabridged, in Bernard's own numbering, in the public-domain English of Samuel J. Eales. The single work is issued in two volumes on account of its length.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe volumes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"border-top:1px solid #e4dccd;margin:.5em 0 1.8em;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"border-bottom:1px solid #e4dccd;padding:16px 0;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:15px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.03em;color:#3D2E1E;\"\u003eVolume One  ·  Sermons I–XLIII\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:14px;line-height:1.65;color:#8a7a63;margin:5px 0 0;\"\u003eFrom the kiss of the mouth and the first opening of the Canticle through the long teaching on the Bride and the Bridegroom, on humility, on the love of God, and on the seasons of the soul. Paperback and hardcover, 366 pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"border-bottom:1px solid #e4dccd;padding:16px 0;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:15px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.03em;color:#3D2E1E;\"\u003eVolume Two  ·  Sermons XLIV–LXXXVI\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:14px;line-height:1.65;color:#8a7a63;margin:5px 0 0;\"\u003eThe exposition carried to the third chapter of the Canticle, with the great sermons on the little foxes, on the beauty of the Bride, and on the search for the Beloved by night, closing with Sermon LXXXVI, left unfinished at Bernard's death. Paperback and hardcover, 364 pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSaint Bernard of Clairvaux (c. 1090–1153), first abbot of Clairvaux, of the Cistercian Order, Doctor of the Church, the Mellifluous Doctor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTranslated from the Latin by Samuel J. Eales, London, 1895\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOne work complete in two volumes: all eighty-six sermons, in Bernard's own numbering, unabridged\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSanctified Souls, Heritage Editions · Saint Bernard, Book Three\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, cream paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:13px;line-height:1.6;color:#8a7a63;margin:1.6em 0 0;\"\u003eCover: \u003cem\u003eSaint Bernard Preaching the Second Crusade at Vézelay, 1146\u003c\/em\u003e by Émile Signol (French, 1804–1892), from the galleries of the Palace of Versailles. Public domain. The same painting carries both volumes, which are distinguished by their volume line.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sanctified Souls","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53048809718041,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/4616\/0921\/files\/bernard-song-of-songs-vol-1.jpg?v=1787543095"},{"product_id":"the-letters-of-saint-bernard","title":"The Letters of Saint Bernard: Complete in Two Volumes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTender and fierce by turns, they show the man behind the saint.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin:1.6em 0 .4em;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNot yet released.\u003c\/strong\u003e This edition is set and in production. Write to the press and we will let you know the day it goes on sale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:13px;line-height:1.6;color:#8a7a63;margin:0 0 1.9em;\"\u003eOn release, each volume is ordered separately, and orders are placed and shipped through IngramSpark. This page is a catalogue listing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout this edition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSaint Bernard of Clairvaux (c. 1090–1153), first abbot of Clairvaux and the most compelling voice of his age, was named by later ages the Mellifluous Doctor for the sweetness of his teaching. His letters are the most immediate of all his writings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn them the abbot of Clairvaux speaks in his own voice to the whole of Christendom: comforting a runaway monk, rebuking a worldly prelate, pleading a just cause before the Pope, pouring out his grief at the death of a brother, labouring without rest for the peace and reform of the Church. Tender and fierce by turns, they show the man behind the saint, and the twelfth-century Church as he strove to reform it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis Sanctified Souls Press edition gathers Bernard's letters complete, in the public-domain English of Samuel J. Eales, in the order and numbering of the translator's edition. The work is issued in two volumes on account of its length.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe volumes\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"border-top:1px solid #e4dccd;margin:.5em 0 1.8em;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"border-bottom:1px solid #e4dccd;padding:16px 0;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:15px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.03em;color:#3D2E1E;\"\u003eVolume One  ·  Letters I–CXXXVII\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:14px;line-height:1.65;color:#8a7a63;margin:5px 0 0;\"\u003eThe early letters of the abbot of Clairvaux: to monks and their kindred, to abbots and bishops, and to the great of the Church, including his long labour in the papal schism. Paperback and hardcover, 332 pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"border-bottom:1px solid #e4dccd;padding:16px 0;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size:15px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.03em;color:#3D2E1E;\"\u003eVolume Two  ·  Letters CXXXVIII–CCCLVI\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:14px;line-height:1.65;color:#8a7a63;margin:5px 0 0;\"\u003eThe letters of his later years: to popes and kings, on the reform of the Church, the affairs of the Order, and the preaching of the Crusade, with the counsel and consolation he never ceased to give. Paperback and hardcover, 476 pages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSaint Bernard of Clairvaux (c. 1090–1153), first abbot of Clairvaux, of the Cistercian Order, Doctor of the Church, the Mellifluous Doctor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTranslated from the Latin by Samuel J. Eales, London, 1889\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe collected letters in two volumes, in the translator's order and numbering; his editorial summaries and footnotes are set aside so that Bernard's own words may stand alone\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSanctified Souls, Heritage Editions · Saint Bernard, Book Four\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, cream paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:13px;line-height:1.6;color:#8a7a63;margin:1.6em 0 0;\"\u003eCover: \u003cem\u003eSan Bernardo\u003c\/em\u003e by Juan Correa de Vivar (Spanish, c. 1510–1566), Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid. Public domain. 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