New studies on this twelfth-century Benedictine abbot who became a Cistercian monk and his keen intellectual life, insightful and creative thought, and his enduring influence.

Exposition on the Song of Songs

In the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, The Song of Songs was a favorite book of Cistercian monks. Bernard of Clairvaux, Gilbert of Hoyland, and John of Ford, as well…