Concept
Bernard of Clairvaux
Overview
Burgundian saint, abbot and theologian (1090–1153)
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Regarding the illustrious St. Bernard, abbot of Clairvaux, it is needless here to say more than that his own age recognized in him the embodiment of the highest ideal of medieval monasticism. Intellectually inferior to Abélard and to some others of those over whom he triumphed, he was their superior in moral strength, in zeal, and above all in the power of making others share his own enthusiasms.
Peter Abelard, Historia Calamitatum
The chapter “BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX” is titled for Bernard of Clairvaux; the author is tied to Bernard of Clairvaux in the knowledge graph.
This passage of St. Bernard's life is not much for the honour of his memory: and whether he took the trouble himself to extract the condemned propositions from _Abelard's_ works, or intrusted it to another hand, it is certain the paper he gave in contained many things which _Abelard_ never wrote, and others which he did not mean in the same sense imputed to him. When a few particular expressions are urged too…
Peter Abelard, Letters of Abelard and Heloise
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In this situation of things, the sovereigns in the different states of Europe endeavoured to recover the influence which they had once had in the disposal of the great benefices of the church; by procuring to the deans and chapters of each diocese the restoration of their ancient right of electing the bishop; and to the monks of each abbacy that of electing the abbot. The reestablishing this ancient order was the…
Adam Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
States what Bernard of Clairvaux is.
Philosophers who discussed Bernard of Clairvaux
- John Scotus Eriugena
- John of Salisbury
- William of Conches
- Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
- Alexander of Hales
- Peter Abelard
- Gabriel Biel
- William of Champeaux
Related ideas
- First Crusade
- French Revolution
- Holy Land
- Mainz
- Paradiso
- Lutheranism
- Pisa
- Kingdom of France
- Mysticism
- Trinity
- Divine Comedy
- Doctor of the Church
- Milan
- Peter Abelard
- Benedictines
- Genoa
- Goethe's Faust
- Catholic Church
- Cologne
- Christendom
- Catharism
- Dante Alighieri
- William of Champeaux
Place in the tradition
Part of French philosophy.