San Bernardo y el amor cortés

• Authors: Gilson Étienne

Title variants

EN

Saint Bernard and Courtly Love

• Languages of publication: ES

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

EN

Bernard of Clairvaux; mysticism; monasticism; love; courtly love

• Publisher: International Étienne Gilson Society
• Journal: Studia Gilsoniana
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 411-446

Dates

published

2021-06-30

Contributors

author

Gilson Étienne

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Notes

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DOI: 10.26385/SG.100216