To sing the praises of Mary, Bernard studies and contemplates her there where God has so perfectly revealed her, in the Scriptures, taking as his text ...

Love came more naturally to Bernard of Clairvaux than did humility. The son of burgundian nobility, 'people of rank and dignity', Bernard attracted followers ...

The monk and the knight-the two quintessentially medieval European heroes-were combined in the Knights Templar and in the other military orders founded ...

“Love is the fountain of life, and the soul which does not drink from it cannot be called alive.” These are the ancient words of Bernard ...

Always a vigorous champion of papal reforms, Bernard of Clairvaux toward the end of his life saw one of his own monks raised to the papal throne as Eugene ...

These eighty-six sermons are among the most famous and most beautiful examples of medieval scriptural exegesis. In them the modern reader can catch a ...

These eighty-six sermons are among the most famous and most beautiful examples of medieval scriptural exegesis. In them the modern reader can catch a ...

This last small group of Bernard's sermons to be published in translation by Cistercian Publications rightly goes by the title De varii in the critical ...

Founded in 910 to return to the authentic monasticism of St Benedict, the Abbey of Cluny led a revolution in the medieval Church. Wresting secular hands ...