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This article analyses the concept of work of Bernard of Clairvaux and also deals with the relationship between physical and mental work in the monastic milieu (vita activa and vita contemplativa), practical activity and inner rest. The author first turns to the beginnings of monastic tradition and Augustine's treatise De opere monachorum, which established a positive evaluation of physical work in monasticism. She then presents an approach to these subjects in Benedictine Rule as the central and normative text of Western monasticism. After an evaluation of various treatises of Bernard of Clairvaux (especially his Apologia ad Guillelmum abbatem and sermons) she comes to the conclusion, that although Bernard primarily promotes the contemplative way of monastic life, he also places a substantial emphasis on physical work, and thus understands both ways as complementary and necessary in the monastic community.
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San Bernardo y el amor cortés

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Studia Gilsoniana
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2021
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vol. 10
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issue 2
411-446
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The author discusses the problem of whether there is any interrelation between Cistercian mysticism, in St. Bernard of Clairveaux’s time, and courtly love. He concludes that cortly love and the Cistercian conception of mystical love are two independent products of the civilization of the twelfth century. They express the different surroundings in which they were respectively born; the one codifying life as led in a princely court, and the other expressing what men make of it in a Cistercian monastery. Undoubtedly the vocabulary of the one might be helped out with terms borrowed from the other, but since it is necessary to renounce the one of these loves before embracing the other it is not to be wondered at that no definite concept exists that is common to both. When Cistercian love would enter into profane literature it could do so only by driving out courtly love and taking its place. St. Bernard, in turn, may have largely contributed to the decadence of the courtly ideal, but never in him could it have found its inspiration.
Vox Patrum
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2008
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vol. 52
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issue 1
257-279
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W opracowaniu
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W 1147 r. Bernard z Clairvaux napisał list w sprawie krucjaty przeciwko pogańskim Słowianom zamieszkałym na wschód od Łaby. Wyraził w nim pogląd, że naród Słowian należy albo całkowicie unicestwić, albo nawrócić. W artykule została postawiona hipoteza, że to słynne sformułowanie Bernarda powinno być interpretowane w kontekście jego poglądów dotyczących walki z herezją. Podstawą analizy są, oprócz przedmiotowego listu, także niektóre inne pisma Bernarda.
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In 1147, Bernard of Clairvaux wrote a letter regarding a crusade against the pagan Slavs residing on the east side of the Elbe. In his opinion, the nation of Slavs should be either totally exterminated, or converted. The author of the article puts forward a hypothesis that this famous statement of Bernard’s statement ought to be interpreted in the context of his views and opinions on the fight against heresy. The analysis is based on, besides the mentioned letter, some other of Bernard’s writings.
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2020
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vol. 9
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issue 4
671-708
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The author discusses St. Bernard of Clairvaux’s understanding of paradisus claustralis—the monastic life of union with the Divine Will. Specifically, he tries to answer the question whether divine love can be taught according to the method proposed by St. Bernard. He makes his way through a whole thicket of artificial obstacles erected around it in order to show the whole positive contribution of history to the understanding of St. Bernard’s mystical theology.
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The collections in Croatian churches and monasteries keep treasure of outstanding cultural and historical value, which is still waiting to be studied, properly evaluated and published. Among just such precious items is a composite, acephalic and lacunose manuscript codex from the turn of the 12th and 13th centuries, which is kept in the treasury of Split Cathedral (626 C). Although it is handsome, rich in various data and very interesting, in the last hundred or so years since it was rediscovered, it has not attracted any great attention from the cultural or the scholarly public. Here is set out a codicological description listing all the anomalies and damages, established the contents and authorship of the texts; at the end some assumptions and arguments backing them up will be put forward as well as some indications of its subsequent fortune.
Vox Patrum
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2021
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vol. 80
436-443
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Review of the book: Pierre-André Burton, Aelred of Rievaulx, 1110-1167. An Existential and Spiritual Biography, tł. Ch. Coski, Cistercian Publications, Liturgical Press, Collegeville, Minnesota, 2020, pp. 598
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Recenzja książki: Pierre-André Burton, Aelred of Rievaulx, 1110-1167. An Existential and Spiritual Biography, tł. Ch. Coski, Cistercian Publications, Liturgical Press, Collegeville, Minnesota, 2020, ss. 598
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Alexander of Malonne – persona mixta: militant bishop at the edges of the Christian world and his historiographical portraitThe narration of the Master Vincentius dedicated to Alexander of Malonne (Chronica Polonorum, bk. III, chaps. 8–9), the bishop of Płock (1129–1156) is undoubtedly the most intriguing evidence addressing the commitment of the Polish medieval bishop in military action. Although such information goes well with other evidence indicating the aristocratic style of this bishop’s ministry resembling those of “courtier” Reichsbischof, Michał Tomaszek has already pointed out that motives as well as the entire construction of Vincentius’s story are the evidence of the chronicler’s reference to some early medieval literary patterns. This analysis makes it even clearer, highlighting however, that the chronicler while creating the portrait of Alexander of Malonne entered the more contemporary discourse on the admissibility limits of bishop’s military activity.The analysis shows that the starting point for the chronicler’s writing were the views of Bernard of Clairvaux stigmatizing all the possibilities of combining the attitudes appropriate for a warrior and a cleric. Vincentius, however, benefited from the “loophole” left by Clairvaux abbot and some canonists, which granted the permission to combine these two responsibilities with the restriction that actions taken by bishop would not cause the destruction of his spiritual perfection or pastoral function, and hence they would not change him into a chimera-monster. Being influenced by the idea of bishop as a persona mixta or gemina persona, the theory assuming the possibility of using two kinds of weapon (two swords) by the Church or even some views of St Bernard stated in his Liber ad Milites Templi de laude novae militiae, Vincentius advocated clearly for the possibility of getting the diocesan involved in the military sphere. The applied strategy aiming at the legitimization of Alexander’s actions, reveals Vincentius’s broad knowledge of arguments defending military prerogatives attributed to episcopacy, and says a lot about the chronicler itself, who did not have to be so ardent supporter of the Church reform as it is quite commonly believed.
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2020
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vol. 9
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issue 1
191-197
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This paper is a review of the book: Hannes Möhle, Philosophie des Mittelalters: Eine Einführung (Berlin: Springer, 2019). The author highlights that Möhle’s book (1) examines a range of key medieval philosophical issues, and illustrates how philosophy stood separately from theology even while heavily influenced by Church and theological matters, and (2) provides readers with a better grounding in many of the longstanding or urgent concerns of medieval philosophy from the perspective of some of the era’s central thinkers.
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