The Letters of Saint Bernard: Complete in Two Volumes
The Letters of Saint Bernard: Complete in Two Volumes
Tender and fierce by turns, they show the man behind the saint.
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About this edition
Saint 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.
In 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.
This 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.
The volumes
The 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.
The 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.
Details
- Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (c. 1090–1153), first abbot of Clairvaux, of the Cistercian Order, Doctor of the Church, the Mellifluous Doctor
- Translated from the Latin by Samuel J. Eales, London, 1889
- The 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
- Sanctified Souls, Heritage Editions · Saint Bernard, Book Four
- Paperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, cream paper
Cover: San Bernardo by Juan Correa de Vivar (Spanish, c. 1510–1566), Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid. Public domain. The same painting carries both volumes, on two grounds: terracotta for the first, sage for the second.
