Gendered Identities in Bernard of Clairvaux’s 'Sermons on the Song of Songs'

Engh, Line Cecilie

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“…9. 81 For emphases on performativity, see Pranger 2003, 47;Verbaal 2003, 241;Engh 2014, 6-8. Caveat by Palazzo, 2014: not acting but activating.…”

Section: Creeping Inside the Text Blended Viewpoint And The Psalmic 'I'mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…86 Pranger 2007, 39-40, and1994, 303-313, has given an insightful analysis of the present sermon upon which I build and expand. 87 Bynum 1986;Engh 2014;Newman 2003;Krahmer 2000. 88 Mark (16:1) has three women: Mary Magdalene, Mary mother of James, Salome (sometimes known in later traditions as Mary Salome): hence the 'three Marys'.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…) 2013. 5 See Pranger 2007;Engh 2014;and Leclercq 1982a. properly speaking explicate the Scripture: he applies it; he does not clarify it. […] He pulls the texts from their context.…”

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Imaginative immersion in the Cistercian Cloister

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2019

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This article uses analytical concepts from cognitive science to explore and deepen our understanding of how medieval monastics imagined themselves as characters within biblical narratives. It argues that Cistercian monks - and in particular Bernard of Clairvaux - used techniques of imaginative immersion to enter and blend themselves into biblical viewpoints and events, thereby engaging the monks in epistemically and personally transformative experiences. The article concludes that this served to build community and to enculture monks and converts. Specifically, the article offers a close reading of two of Bernard's liturgical sermons, Sermon Two for Palm Sunday and Sermon Two on the Resurrection, to show how his sermons 1) traverse time and space and 2) blend viewpoints. Examples are also taken from texts by John Cassian, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and William of St. Thierry. Keywords: Bernard of Clairvaux, blended viewpoint, deictic displacement, lectio divina, liturgical time and space. On cover:Monks singing the Office and decorated initial A[sperges me.]. Gradual Olivetan Master (Use of the Olivetan Benedictines), illuminated manuscript on parchment ca. 1430-1439. Italy, Monastero di Santa Maria di Baggio near Milan, Ca 1400-1775.Beinecke Ms1184: The olivetan Gradual. Gradual. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

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“…9. 81 For emphases on performativity, see Pranger 2003, 47;Verbaal 2003, 241;Engh 2014, 6-8. Caveat by Palazzo, 2014: not acting but activating.…”

Section: Creeping Inside the Text Blended Viewpoint And The Psalmic 'I'mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Creeping Inside the Text Blended Viewpoint And The Psalmic 'I'mentioning

confidence: 99%