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The Letter Collections of Nicholas of Clairvaux

The Letter Collections of Nicholas of Clairvaux

Wahlgren-Smith, Lena

Hardcover

Series: Oxford Medieval Texts

Literary CriticismReligion General Historiography

ISBN10: 0199671516
ISBN13: 9780199671519
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Nov 27 2018
Pages: 424
Weight: 1.45
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
Nicholas of Clairvaux started his career as a Benedictine but ended up at Clairvaux where he was the secretary of St Bernard. He later became known as 'the black sheep of the Cistercian order' and was expelled from Clairvaux on a charge of fraudulent letter writing. During his life he was responsible for at least two letter collections, which are contained within this volume, with facing-English translation and scholarly commentary. The letters are of great scholarly interest not only for the writer's proximity to historical events in the early twelfth-century, but also for the insights he provides into monastic culture.

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