The Very Devout Meditations attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux: A Translation with Introduction and Notes of the Meditationes piisimae de cognitione humanae conditionis

There were two Bernards of Clairvaux. The first was the genuine Bernard who lived from 1090 to 1153, and wrote letters, sermons, and treatises that are of major consequence in the history of the twelfth century. The second is a host of writers, most of whom have not been identified, who wrote treatises attributed to the genuine Bernard, but that were not from his pen.

This volume, the first complete translation in more than three hundred years, presents one of the most important texts in th...