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Paul Demier
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Aelred Squire
A pioneer Aelred scholar, the late Aelred Squire introduces readers to “the English Saint Bernard’ by chronicling his life, his monastic treatises on the spiritual life, and the historical and…
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St Aelred Of Rievaulx
"Here we are. You and me. And I hope Christ makes three." So begins a profound and yet playful conversation about the possibility that "God is friendship."
In Spiritual Friendship…
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Marsha Dutton
The contributors explore the life, thought, and works of Aelred, 12th-century Cistercian abbot of Rievaulx Abbey, his sermons, spirituality, and histories and highlight their principal themes (e.g., friendship, community, lay…
Walter Daniel
Walter Daniel knew Aelred well and attended him on his deathbed in 1167. He remembered, and portrayed, him as abbot, counselor, and friend. Contemporaries who had known him as a…
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John R. Sommerfeldt
For the medieval Cistercian abbot Aelred of Rievaulx, human beings are capable of happiness because human nature is good-but the self-defeating choices of humans have led to their misery. A…
John R Sommerfeldt
The universe is a product of God’s infinite love, according to the expansive thinking of Aelred of Rievaulx, a Cistercian abbot of the Middle Ages. Aelred sees human existence, order…
Mark Williams, PhD (University of Leeds UK)
Aelred of the Spiritual Friendship is one of the most important treatises on friendship to emerge from teh middle ages. Working within a tradition that dates back to Cicero and…
Aelred of Rievaulx
Treatises and Pastoral Prayer
Dialogue on the Soul
Shuma Chakravarty
Aelred of Rievaulx, a twelfth-century courtier who became a Cistercian monk, was one of the most generous thinkers of the history of Christianity. Chakravarty’s well-researched exploration of Aelred’s life and…
Aelred of Rievaulx’s Pastoral Prayer
Pierre-Andre Burton, OSCO
This book is translated from Pierre-Andrae Burton, OCSO, De l'homme aeclatae aa l'aetre unifiae. Essai de Biographie Existentielle et Spirituelle (Paris: Les aEditions du Cerf, 2010), with permission from Les…
Writings on Body and Soul includes a selection of the theological, historical, and devotional works of Aelred, the controversial abbot of Rievaulx Abbey in Yorkshire who was widely admired but…
The Liturgical Sermons:The First Clairvaux Collection, Advent–All Saints
St.Aelred
The latest offering in the Classics with Commentary series invites readers to enter into one of the great works of the Christian tradition that sees friendship as a key to…
Hetta Elizabeth Howes (Contributor)
A consideration of the metaphor of water in religious literature, especially in relation to women.
Avec les 98 sermons de la collection de Reading, jusqu'alors inedite, publies par le frere Gaetan Raciti (Abbaye d'Orval en Belgique) dans le volume IV des Opera Omniad'Aelred de Rievaulx…
During his twenty years as abbot of the Yorkshire monastery of Rievaulx, Aelred preached many sermons: to his own monks, in other monasteries, and at significant gatherings outside the cloister…
Aelred, abbot of the Yorkshire Cistercian abbey of Rievaulx from 1147 to 1167, wrote six spiritual treatises, seven historical treatises, and 182 liturgical sermons, most of which he delivered as…
These volumes contain Aelred’s ninety-eight liturgical sermons from the Reading-Cluny collection. For the most part, the collection follows the liturgical year. Volume 1 begins with three sermons for Advent and…
Lives of the Northern Saints
Mirror of Charity
Spiritual Friendship
Aelred, abbot of the Yorkshire Cistercian abbey of Rievaulx from 1147 to 1167, wrote six spiritual treatises, seven historical treatises, and 182 liturgical sermons, many of which he delivered as…
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