Five Books on Consideration: Advice to a Pope by Bernard of Clairvaux

Five Books on Consideration: Advice to a Pope

Bernard of Clairvaux

230 pages first pub 1150 (editions)

nonfiction religion informative reflective slow-paced
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Always a vigorous champion of papal reforms, Bernard of Clairvaux toward the end of his life saw one of his own monks raised to the papal throne as Eugene III. While acting as the new Pope's political and spiritual counsellor, the Great Cistercian...

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