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03845aam a22003978i 4500 001 13C9CA0C933C11EEBCD0C43545ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231205010040 008 230427t20232023mnu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2023018123 020 $a 9780879071578 020 $a 0879071575 035 $a (OCoLC)1387568493 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d XII $d ICU $d IWA $d SILO 041 1 $a lat $h eng 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a BX2179 472 M4413 2023 100 0 $a Bernard, $c of Clairvaux, Saint, $d 1090 or 1091-1153, $0 https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79059107 $e author. 240 10 $a Meditationes piisimae de cognitione humanae conditionis. $l English $0 https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2023025838 245 14 $a The very devout meditations attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux : $b a translation, with introduction and notes, of the Meditationes piisimae de cognitione humanae conditionis / $c by David N. Bell. 264 1 $a Collegeville, Minnesota : $b Cistercian Publications, $c [2023] 300 $a x, 162 pages ; $c 22 cm. 490 1 $a Cistercian studies series ; $v no. two hundred ninety-eight 500 $a Translation of: Meditationes piisimae de cognitione humanae conditionis. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 505 0 $a Part 1. Introduction. 1. Bernard and Pseudo-Bernard -- 2. The Meditationes piisimae -- 3. The teaching of the Meditationes : theory -- 4. The teaching of the Meditationes : practice -- 5. The English translations. -- Part 2. The translation: Most devout meditations on the knowledge of the human condition. 1. On human dignity -- 2. On human misery, the horror of death, and the severity of the Supreme Judge -- 3. Of the dignity of the soul and the baseness of the body -- 4. Of the reward of the heavenly homeland -- 5. On the daily examination of oneself -- 6. On the need to be attentive at the time of prayer -- 7. On guarding the heart and zeal in prayer -- 8. On the hatred of carelessness or negligence in prayer -- 9. On the unstable nature of the human heart -- 10. On the dislike of being corrected, and of being accused of one's failures and faults -- 11. On conscience, which accompanies us everywhere and continually goads us -- 12. Of the three enemies of humankind : the flesh, the world, and the devil -- 13. On the attacks of these three aforesaid enemies -- 14. On the desire for our heavenly homeland and on its supreme happiness -- 15. On the nature and feelings of the old self, and its mortification and transformation through Christ. 520 $a "This volume, the first complete translation in more than three-hundred years, presents one of the most important texts in the history of medieval Latin spirituality. Written between 1170 and 1190 by an unidentified Cistercian monk-priest, Meditationes piisimae, "Very Devout Meditations," became one of the most popular and widely distributed pieces of spiritual literature in the whole of the Middle Ages. The work survives in at least 670 manuscripts with the complete English translation of the treatise published in 1701"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Spiritual life $x Catholic Church. $0 https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85126762 650 0 $a Meditations. $0 https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083220 700 1 $a Bell, David N., $d 1943- $0 https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83040587 $e translator. 776 08 $i Online version: $t Very devout meditations attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux $d Collegeville, Minnesota : Cistercian Publications, [2023] $z 9780879071585 $w (DLC) 2023018124 830 0 $a Cistercian studies series ; $0 https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n42006740 $v no. 298. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20231205011935.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=13C9CA0C933C11EEBCD0C43545ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search