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The Life Of Aelred Of Rievaulx - And the Letter to Maurice (Paperback) Loot Price: R630
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The Life Of Aelred Of Rievaulx - And the Letter to Maurice (Paperback): Walter Daniel

The Life Of Aelred Of Rievaulx - And the Letter to Maurice (Paperback)

Walter Daniel; Translated by F.M. Powicke, Jane Patricia Freeland; Introduction by Marsha Dutton

Series: Cistercian Fathers, 57

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Writing shortly after Aelred of Rievaulx died on 12 January 1167, Walter Daniel, his secretary and fellow monk, has created the picture of Aelred which endures to this day. We come to know a man of 'charity and astonishing sanctity', an ailing abbot whose monks sat chatting around his bed. Only in passing do we glimpse the ambitious young steward at the court of King David of Scotland, the ecclesiastical diplomat and political counselor who moved easily in royal and episcopal circles, or the canny property manager who guided his monasteries to prosperity. From Walter's pen we have a gentle, loving, ascetic abbot who offered spiritual guidance to his monks through conversation and to a wider audience through the treatises he composed, and who died a holy death. The reaction the Life provoked suggest that some contemporaries outside Rievaulx entertained a different picture of the abbot of Rievaulx. Whether motivated by simple dislike, by envy, or by dissatisfaction at a hastily informal 'canonization', the critics stung the indignant Walter to response. Perhaps they, like Walter, viewed as irreconcilable and struggled to keep apart two worlds which Aelred himself integrated and brought together.

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Imprint: Cistercian Publications
Country of origin: United States
Series: Cistercian Fathers, 57
Release date: August 1994
First published: 1994
Authors: Walter Daniel
Translators: F.M. Powicke • Jane Patricia Freeland
Introduction by: Marsha Dutton
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 978-0-87907-257-5
Categories: Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > General
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Christian institutions & organizations > Christian communities & monasticism
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Christian institutions & organizations > Christian communities & monasticism
Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > General
Books > Christianity > Christian institutions & organizations > Christian communities & monasticism
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LSN: 0-87907-257-1
Barcode: 9780879072575

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