Aelred of Rievaulx (1110-1167)

Aelred of Rievaulx (1110-1167)

Author: Pierre-André Burton

Publisher: Liturgical Press

Published: 2020-12-15

Total Pages: 616

ISBN-13: 0879077085

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2021 Catholic Media Association Award third place award in English translation edition 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.


Aelred the Peacemaker

Aelred the Peacemaker

Author: Jean Truax

Publisher: Liturgical Press

Published: 2017-02-01

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 0879070536

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In addition to being a prolific spiritual writer and the abbot of the premier Cistercian monastery in northern England, Aelred of Rievaulx somehow found the time and the stamina to travel extensively throughout the Anglo-Norman realm, acting as a mediator, a problem solver, and an adviser to kings. His career spanned the troubled years of the civil war between King Stephen and the Empress Matilda and reached its zenith during the early years of the reign of Henry II. In this work, Jean Truax focuses on the public career of Aelred of Rievaulx, placing him in his historical context, deepening the reader’s understanding of his work, and casting additional light on his underappreciated role as politician, mediator, and negotiator outside his abbey’s walls.


The Historian and Character

The Historian and Character

Author: Dom David Knowles

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-10-30

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 9780521088411

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A collection of essays and articles by Dom David Knowles.


Ailred of Rievaulx and His Biographer Walter Daniel

Ailred of Rievaulx and His Biographer Walter Daniel

Author: F. M. 1879-1963 Powicke

Publisher: Sagwan Press

Published: 2015-08-24

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9781340164683

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Cistercian Fathers and Forefathers

Cistercian Fathers and Forefathers

Author: Thomas Merton

Publisher: New City Press

Published: 2018-09-15

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 1565486722

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This volume of previously uncollected studies makes a notable contribution to Merton's extensive and influential legacy. This volume includes pieces on eleventh- and twelfth-century mo­nastics by Thomas Merton, perhaps the most significant American Catholic spiritual writer of the twentieth century. The essays are difficult to locate elsewhere, the conference transcriptions are available only here.