Bernard of Clairvaux: An Inner Life

by Brian Patrick McGuire

In this intimate portrait of one of the Middle Ages' most consequential men, Brian Patrick McGuire delves into the life of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux to offer a refreshing interpretation that finds within this grand historical figure a deeply spiritual human being who longed for the reflective quietude of the monastery even as he helped shape the destiny of a church and a continent. Heresy and crusade, politics and papacies, theology and disputation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501751042
• ISBN13: 9781501751042
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher