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Aelred of Rievaulx (1110-1167) : an existential and spiritual biography / Pierre-André Burton, OCSO ; translated by Christopher Coski.
Van Pelt Library BR754.A325 B8713 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burton, Pierre-André, author.
- Series:
- Cistercian studies series ; no. 276.
- Cistercian studies series ; number two hundred seventy-six
- Standardized Title:
- Aelred de Rievaulx, 1110-1167. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Aelred, of Rievaulx, Saint, 1110-1167.
- Aelred.
- Cistercians--England--Biography.
- Cistercians.
- Christian saints--England--Biography.
- Christian saints.
- Abbots.
- England.
- Abbots--England--Biography.
- England--Church history--1066-1485.
- Church history.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Church history.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 598 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens, Ohio : Cistercian Publications ; Collegeville, Minnesota : Liturgical Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- This book places the life of Aelred of Rievaulx, third abbot of the English Cistercian abbey of Rievaulx, within the hundred-year period from the Norman Conquest of England in October 1066 through Aelred's death in January 1167. While exploring what is known of Aelred's life from his own works and especially from the principal work of Walter Daniel, author of The Life of Aelred of Rievaulx, Burton considers the influence of both English and church history on Aelred's personality and purpose as Christian, abbot, and writer. He emphasizes the place of the crucified Christ at the center of Aelred's life while calling spiritual friendship--not only personal but cosmological--the "hermeneutic key" to his teaching.
- Contents:
- Historiography, methods, and perspectives
- The foundation of Rievaulx : the context of Aelred's life
- Aelred's intellectual development and life at the Scottish court
- Aelred's conversion (1134)
- Aelred's monastic instruction (1134-1143)
- Teacher of humanity ; the Mirror of charity (1142-1143)
- Searching for unity : asceticism and charity by way of friendship
- Key events : foundation of Revesby (1143) and election at Rievaulx (1147)
- Aelred : a master architect building a community
- From Babylon to Jerusalem
- Aelred's social and political engagements
- Toward a mystical theology of history, or the cosmic mystery of the cross of Christ
- General conclusions: From divided man to unified being in Christ : configuring the self and the world in Christ ; Aelred's universal mystical theology of history
- Chronological chart
- Aelred of Rievaulx's works categorized by seven spiritual paths
- Foundations in the filiation of Rievaulx
- Genealogical chart of relations between the Anglo-Saxon, Franco-Norman, and Scottish royal families.
- Notes:
- "This book is translated from Pierre-André Burton, OCSO, Aelred of Rievaulx (1110-1167): Essai de Biographie Existentielle et Spirituelle (Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2010), with permission from Les Éditions du Cerf."
- Translated from the French.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Burton, Pierre-André. Aelred de Rievaulx, 1110-1167. English Aelred of Rievaulx (1110-1167)
- ISBN:
- 9780879072766
- 0879072768
- OCLC:
- 1184124357
- Publisher Number:
- 40030319443
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