Sermons on the Song of Songs, Volume 3

Taking up Saint Bernard's unfinished sermon—commentary, Gilbert ruminates on verse 3:1—5:10 in forty—eight sermons, leaving the task to be finished by John of Ford.
This volume contains sermons 33 through 48.

To encounter a person who makes holiness attractive is an enviable experience. Such a person was Gilbert of Hoyland, abbot of the Cistercian monastery of Swineshead in Lincolnshire, a friend of Aelred of Rievaulx, and the continuator of the sermons on the Song of Songs begun by Bernard ...