An Annotated Bibliography of Printed and Online Primary Sources for the Middle Ages

Bernard of Clairvaux Saint
lived c. 1090-1153

Bernard of Clairvaux was a French abbot and one of the main figures in the reform movement of the Cistercian Order, which sought to return to the austerity of the original Benedictine rule. Bernard is also known for his recruiting efforts in the Second Crusade, and for originating the idea of the Knights Templar, an order of knights who took monastic vows. He was an avid theologian and defender of orthodoxy, and a prolific writer of theology, hagiography, orthodoxy, monasticism, and sermons.

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OMSB Records by Bernard of Clairvaux:

• Scholl, Edith, ed; Pennington, M. Basil, In the School of Love: An Anthology of Early Cistercian Texts (Cistercian Fathers Series, Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 2000).
• Matarasso, Pauline, trans., The Cistercian World: Monastic Writings of the Twelfth Century (New York: Penguin Classics, 1993).
• Meyer, Robert, trans, The Life and Death of Saint Malachy the Irishman (Cistercian Fathers Series, Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 1978).
• Walsh, Kilian, trans; Halflants, M. Corneille, ed., Song of Songs I-II (Cistercian Fathers Series, Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, Inc., 1971-1981).
• James, Bruno, trans, The Letters of Bernard of Clairvaux (Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 1953 [Rpt. 1998]).
• James, Bruno, trans., St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Seen Through His Selected Letters (Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1953).
• Lumby, J. Rawson, ed., Bernardus de cura rei familiarus with some Early Scottish Prophecies, etc. (Early English Text Society Original Series 42, 1870 [Rpt. 1966]).
• Priest of Mount Melleray, St. Bernard's Sermons for the Seasons and Principal Festivals of the Year Translated from the Original Latin (The Carroll Press. Westminster, Maryland., 1950).
• Connolly, Rev. Terence L., S.J., trans., Saint Bernard on the Love of God (Techny, Illinois: Mission Press, 1943).
• Anderson, John, trans.; Kennan, Elizabeth, trans., Five Books on Consideration: Advice to a Pope (Cistercian Fathers Series: 37, Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 1976).
• Said, Marie-Bedrnard, trans.; Perigo, Grace, trans., Magnificat: Homilies in Praise of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Cistercian Fathers Series: 8, Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 1979).
• Saïd, Marie-Bernard, trans., Sermons on Conversion (Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, Inc, 1981).
• O'Donovan, Oliver, ed.; O'Donovan, Joan Lockwood, ed., From Irenaeus to Grotius: A Sourcebook in Christian Political Thought 100-1625 (Grand Rapids MI: Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1999).
• Hickey, Leo, trans., The Nativity (Dublin: Scepter, Ltd., 1959).
• Stiegman, Emero, ed., On Loving God (Kalamazoo, Michigan: Cistercian Publications, Inc., 1995).
• Mead, E.V., ed., "Two Anglo-Norman Devotional Poems" (Medium Aevum, 28, pp. 87-90, 1959).
• Thomsoon, S.H., ed., "The 'Dulcis Jesu Memoria' in Anglo-Norman and Middle French" (Medium Aevum, 11, pp. 68-76, 1942).