A Companion to Aelred of Rievaulx (1110-1167)

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-18355-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 76, 364 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 688 g

Reihe: Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition

Brill's Companion to Aelred of Rievaulx explores the life, works, and thought of Aelred, Cistercian abbot of Rievaulx Abbey from 1147 to 1167. As well as introducing the three genres of his works —sermons, spiritual teaching, and history— scholars survey such central topics as Marian devotion, love and friendship, the sacramental nature of community, lay spirituality, and saints’ lives. The work also includes the first supplement to the Bibliotheca aelrediana secunda, listing publications by and about Aelred from between 1996 and 2015. Aelred is rapidly becoming one of the best-known and most loved of the 12th-century Cistercians; this book provides welcome new insights into his contributions to the spiritual and political concerns of his place and time.

Contributors are Damien Boquet, Pierre-André Burton, Marsha L. Dutton, Elizabeth Freeman, Daniel M. La Corte, Marie Anne Mayeski, Domenico Pezzini, John R. Sommerfeldt, and Katherine Yohe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dutton, Marsha

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religiöse und spirituelle Führer
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction

1 Aelred of Rievaulx: Abbot, Teacher, and Writer
Marsha L. Dutton

2 Aelred on Abbatial Responsibilities
Daniel M. La Corte

Part I: Aelred’s Works

3 The Sermons of Aelred of Rievaulx
Domenico Pezzini

4 Anthropology and Cosmology: The Foundational Principles of Aelred’s Spirituality
John R. Sommerfeldt

5 Aelred as a Historian among Historians
Elizabeth Freeman

Part II: Aelred’s Teaching

6 “At the Feet of His Dearest Mother”: Aelred’s Teaching on Mary in the Sermons of the First Clairvaux Collection
Marie Anne Mayeski

7 Affectivity in the Spiritual Writings of Aelred of Rievaulx
Damien Boquet

8 Aelred of Rievaulx: An Illiterate, or a True Master of Spiritual Teaching?
Pierre-André Burton

9 Aelred’s Doctrine of Charity and Friendship
Domenico Pezzini

10 The Sacramentality of Community in Aelred
Marsha L. Dutton

11 Working out One’s Salvation in the World: Aelred and Lay Spirituality
Katherine Yohe

Bibliography

Bibliotheca aelrediana secunda: Supplementa Pierre-André Burton

Indices

Über Autor(innen)

Marsha L. Dutton, Ph.D. (1981), is Professor Emerita of Medieval Literature at Ohio University and Executive Editor of Cistercian Publications. She has edited nine translations of Aelred’s works, published numerous articles, and prepared the Aelred bibliography for Oxford Bibliographies Online.