The very devout meditations attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux: a translation, with introduction and notes, of the Meditationes piisimae de cognitione humanae conditionis

"This volume, the first complete translation in more than three-hundred years, presents one of the most important texts in the history of medieval Latin spirituality. Written between 1170 and 1190 by an unidentified Cistercian monk-priest, Meditationes piisimae, "Very Devout Meditations,&q...

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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Collegeville, Minnesota Liturgical Press [2023]
Schriftenreihe:Cistercian studies series number 298
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Zusammenfassung:"This volume, the first complete translation in more than three-hundred years, presents one of the most important texts in the history of medieval Latin spirituality. Written between 1170 and 1190 by an unidentified Cistercian monk-priest, Meditationes piisimae, "Very Devout Meditations," became one of the most popular and widely distributed pieces of spiritual literature in the whole of the Middle Ages. The work survives in at least 670 manuscripts with the complete English translation of the treatise published in 1701"--
Beschreibung:Translation of: Meditationes piisimae de cognitione humanae conditionis
Beschreibung:x, 162 Seiten 22 cm
ISBN:9780879071578