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Aeled of Rievaulx: Spiritual Friendship
Spiritual Friendship is today the best known and perhaps most influential of the thirteen surviving works of Aelred abbot of the great English Cistercian abbey of Rievaulx from 1147 1167 During his abbacy he built Rievaulx into a place of spiritual welcome and physical prosperity desiring to make it a mother of mercy to those in need In a threebook Ciceronian dialogue Aelred defines human friendship as sacramental beginning in creation as God sought to place his own love of society in al his creatures linking friends to Christ in this life and culminating in friendship with God in beatitude This fresh new translation makes the work crisply readable allowing the intellectual and Christian insight of this great Cistercian teacher and writer to speak clearly to todays seekers of love wisdom and truthLawrence C Braceland was professor of classics and dean at Ignatius College Guelph Canada until in 1963 becoming professor of classics and dean of arts and sciences at St Pauls College the University of Manitoba After his retirement in 1978 he devoted himself to Cistercian scholarship publishing numerous articles and translating in four volumes al the works of the English Cistercian abbot Gilbert of HoylandMarshal Dutton professor of medieval literature and director of graduate studies in English at Ohio University is along time student of the works of Aelred of Rievaulx and of other twelfthcentury Cistercian writers She is associate editor of Cistercian Studies Quarterly In addition to her many articles on Cistercian thought Dutton has written the introduction to Vita Aelredi CF 57 and edited Aelreds The Historical Works and Lives of the Northern Saints CF 56 71 as well as preparing a critical edition of Aelreds Pastoral Prayer CF 73 She was one of the editors of Truth as Gift Studies in Cistercian History Honoring John R Sommerfeldt CS 204
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Marsha L. Dutton, Editor; Lawrence C. Braceland, Translator
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