Saint Bernard

Standard Name: Bernard, Saint,, of Clairvaux
Used Form: St Bernard

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Education Elizabeth Shirley
Dorothy L. Latz is at pains to emphasise the importance for ES of the thinking of such fellow Augustinians as (apart from St Augustine himself), Gerard Grote , Henry Suso , Ruysbroeck , Bernard of Clairvaux
Family and Intimate relationships Coventry Patmore
CP married his second wife, Marianne Caroline Blyes , on 18 July 1864. Like him, she was a devoted Catholic convert. Her inherited wealth guaranteed her new husband and his children increased financial security. The...
Intertextuality and Influence Hildegarde of Bingen
Scivias, written over a period of ten years, contains three books in which HB describes and interprets twenty-six of her visions.
Kraft, Kent. “The German Visionary: Hildegard of Bingen”. Medieval Women Writers, edited by Katharina M. Wilson, University of Georgia Press, 1984, pp. 109 -30.
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Flanagan, Sabina. Hildegard of Bingen, 1098-1179: A Visionary Life. Routledge, 1995.
58
While she was writing the book she wrote to Bernard of Clairvaux
Author summary Winefrid Thimelby
Though the focus of her life was religion, the seventeenth-century WT expressed in several genres an urge to write: pious meditations, lively familiar letters, and in all probability a long sequence of the annals of...
Textual Features Caroline Frances Cornwallis
Just as her seventh book, Christian Doctrine and Practice in the Second Century, made use of the writings of Clement of Alexandria , so this one takes St Bernard (a correspondent of Hildegarde of Bingen
Textual Features Hildegarde of Bingen
The quantity of HB's letters, which were collected near the end of her life, is immense.
Ferrante, Joan M. “Correspondent: ’Blessed Is the Speech of Your Mouth’”. Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World, edited by Barbara Newman, University of California Press, 1998, pp. 91 - 109.
91
The bulk of them were written to answer her correspondents' practical, legal, ethical, and spiritual concerns.
Ferrante, Joan M. “Correspondent: ’Blessed Is the Speech of Your Mouth’”. Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World, edited by Barbara Newman, University of California Press, 1998, pp. 91 - 109.
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She...
Textual Production Caroline Frances Cornwallis
Since much of this book is composed of the translated writings of St Bernard of Clairvaux , CFC is sometimes listed as its translator, not its author.
British Library Catalogue.
OCLC WorldCat.
Cornwallis, Caroline Frances. Christian Doctrine and Practice in the Twelfth Century. William Pickering, 1850.
10-11

Timeline

1881
Marianne Caroline Patmore and her husband, Coventry Patmore , published their translationSaint Bernard on the Love of God.