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St. Bernard of Clairvaux
9 pages (2009/1899); 140KB download
WOWIO Books; ISBN: WOWIO-00495
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Four sermons are included in this selection:
• Preaching the Crusade
• Advice to Young Men
• Against Luxury in the Church
• On the Canticles
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux “is one of the few great orators of the Middle Ages whose eloquence is still self-explanatory. Often, if not generally, in reading addresses, sermons, and homilies translated from Middle Age Latin into modern languages, we wonder what it is in them that could so have moved men as we know they were moved by them. St. Bernard excites no such wonder, but rather moves us first to assent and then to admiration. He is one of the few great orators and writers whose power can be transferred from one language to another. To read ten sentences of one of the sermons in which he preached the twelfth-century Crusade is to be able to understand the otherwise unaccountable enthusiasm he never failed to excite in his hearers. Other orators of the Middle Ages may have been more admired in their time, but Bernard seems more worthy than any of the rest to rank with the great classical and modern masters of eloquence whose utterances are for all time.”—David J. Brewer