Saint Bernard

Abstract: Controversial in his own day, Bernard still today excites both admiration and dislike. McGuire looks at various facets of Bernard's personality, and at the enduring legacy that has followed him for over eight centuries.

Abstract: Introduction: A Companion to Bernard of Clairvaux. Brian Patrick McGuire Bernard's Life and Works: A Review. Brian Patrick McGuire Reading Saint Bernard: The Man, the Medium, the Message. Michael Casey OCSO Bernard and William of Saint Thierry. E. Rozanne Elder Bernard of Clairvaux and Peter Abelard. Constant J. Mews Bernard as a Father Abbot. Christopher Holdsworth Bernard the Writer. M.B. Pranger Bernard of Clairvaux and the Landscape of Salvation. Mette B. Bruun Bernard of Clairvaux and Christian Art. Diane J. Reilly The Heritage of Saint Bernard in Medieval Art. James France An Old Man's Tale: My Many Years With Saint Bernard of Clairvaux. Chrysogonus Waddell OCSO Afterword: Looking Back at Bernard. John R. Sommerfeldt Bibliography Index

Abstract: The focus on three drops of milk issuing from the Virgin’s breast in “The Virgin in Front of a Fire Screen” was inspired by contemporary representations of the Lactation of Saint Bernard This latter iconography provides the visual context for the vivid address of eroticized depictions of the Madonna’s “one bare breast” in Flemish art and shows the intricate connections between visuality and materiality in fifteenth-century Flemish religious art Some depictions of Saint Bernard’s lactation transform the Madonna’s jets of milk into rays of light aiming for his eyes, stressing the interchangeability of materiality and visuality as modes that were expected to facilitate and/or authenticate miraculous appearances of the Madonna