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27-05-2008
Parables: Bernard of Clairvaux's Mapping of Spiritual Topography
by Mette Birkedal Bruun
Leiden (etc.): Brill, 2007
Xiv + 346 pp, hardback
ISBN-13: 978 90 04 15503 9
ISBN-10: 90 04 15503 1
Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 148
About this Book
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.
About the Author 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.
Contents
Acknowledgements, Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. SEMANTIC FRAME OF RESONANCE
Chapter One. Mappings
Chapter Two. Topographies
Chapter Three. Topographical Anthropology
Chapter Four. Memory
Chapter Five. Conclusion and transition
Part II. BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX'S PARABLES
Chapter One. Introduction
Chapter Two. Par I, De filio regis
Chapter Three. Par II, De conflictu duorum regum
Chapter Four. Par III, De filio regis sedente super equum
Chapter Five. Par IV, De ecclesia quae captiva erat in Aegypto
Chapter Six. Parv, De tribus filiabus regis
Chapter Seven. Par VI, De Aethiopissa quam filius regis duxit uxorem
Chapter Eight. Par VII, De octo beatitudinibus
Chapter Nine. Par VIII, De rege et servo quem dilexit
Epilogue
Bibliography
General index, Index of Bernard's texts
Readership
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