Parables
Bernard of Clairvaux's Mapping of Spiritual Topography
Published on 21. December 2006
Book
Hardback
360 pages
978-90-04-15503-9 (ISBN)
Description
This volume is a study of spatial structures in Bernard of Clairvaux's Parables. It lays out a spiritual topography which is linked to the rumination of the Bible. The topography ranges across such locations as Paradise, Babylon, the bridegroom's chamber, and the Celestial Jerusalem, and man navigates it in the character of peregrinus and viator.
The first part of the study addresses the spiritual topography and the hermeneutics of its mapping. The second and larger part examines each of Bernard's eight parables and the ways in which he reformulates issues central to monastic tradition - militia Christi, for example, God's image and likeness in man, contemptus mundi, the quest for beatitude - as voyages within spiritual landscapes.
The first part of the study addresses the spiritual topography and the hermeneutics of its mapping. The second and larger part examines each of Bernard's eight parables and the ways in which he reformulates issues central to monastic tradition - militia Christi, for example, God's image and likeness in man, contemptus mundi, the quest for beatitude - as voyages within spiritual landscapes.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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sewn/stitched
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Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 166 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
794 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-15503-9 (9789004155039)
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Mette B. Bruun, Ph.D. (2000) in Theology, University of Aarhus, research fellow, Centre for the Study of the Cultural Heritage of Medieval Rituals, University of Copenhagen, has published on Cistercians and co-edited anthologies on ritual and cultural history, e.g. The Appearances of Medieval Rituals (Brepols, 2004).
Content
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
PART I. SEMANTIC FRAME OF RESONANCE
1. Mappings
2. Topographies
3. Topographical Anthropology
4. Memory
5. Conclusion and transition
PART II. BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX'S PARABLES
1. Introduction
2. Par I, De filio regis
3. Par II, De conflictu duorum regum
4. Par III, De filio regis sedente super equum
5. Par IV, De ecclesia quae captiva erat in Aegypto
6. Par V, De tribus filiabus regis
7. Par VI, De Aethiopissa quam filius regis duxit uxorem
8. Par VII, De octo beatitudinibus
9. Par VIII, De rege et servo quem dilexit
Epilogue
Bibliography
General index
Index of Bernard's texts
Abbreviations
Introduction
PART I. SEMANTIC FRAME OF RESONANCE
1. Mappings
2. Topographies
3. Topographical Anthropology
4. Memory
5. Conclusion and transition
PART II. BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX'S PARABLES
1. Introduction
2. Par I, De filio regis
3. Par II, De conflictu duorum regum
4. Par III, De filio regis sedente super equum
5. Par IV, De ecclesia quae captiva erat in Aegypto
6. Par V, De tribus filiabus regis
7. Par VI, De Aethiopissa quam filius regis duxit uxorem
8. Par VII, De octo beatitudinibus
9. Par VIII, De rege et servo quem dilexit
Epilogue
Bibliography
General index
Index of Bernard's texts