Parables : Bernard of Clairvaux's mapping of spiritual topography / / by Mette B. Bruun.

• Superior document: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 148
• Author: Bruun, Mette Birkedal.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 148.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction /; Chapter One. Mappings /; Chapter Two. Topographies /; Chapter Three. Topographical Anthropology /; Chapter Four. Memory /; Chapter Five. Conclusion And Transition /; Chapter One. Introduction /; Chapter Two. Parabola I, De Filio Regis /; Chapter Three. Parabola II, De Conflictu Duorum Regum /; Chapter Four. Parabola III, De Filio Regis Sedente Super Equum /; Chapter Five. Parabola IV, De Ecclesia Quae Captiva Erat In Aegypto /; Chapter Six. Parabola V, De Tribus Filiabus Regis /; Chapter Seven. Parabola VI, De Aethiopissa Quam Filius Regis Duxit Uxorem /; Chapter Eight. Parabola VII, De Octo Beatitudinibus /; Chapter Nine. Parabola VIII, De Rege Et Servo Quem Dilexit /; Epilogue /; Bibliography /; General Index /; Index Of Bernard Texts /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-327) and indexes.
• ISBN: 1281457973; 9786611457976; 9047411560
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Mette B. Bruun.

This volume is a study of spatial structures in Bernard of Clairvaux’s Parables . It lays out a spiritual topography which is linked to the rumination of the Bible. The topography ranges across such locations as Paradise, Babylon, the bridegroom's chamber, and the Celestial Jerusalem, and man navigates it in the character of peregrinus and viator . The first part of the study addresses the spiritual topography and the hermeneutics of its mapping. The second and larger part examines each of Bernard's eight parables and the ways in which he reformulates issues central to monastic tradition – militia Christi , for example, God's image and likeness in man, contemptus mundi , the quest for beatitude – as voyages within spiritual landscapes.