Handmaid of the Lord

Contents

List of Abbreviations ix
Introduction
What This Book Is, and What It Is Not 1

Part One: Mary
Chapter One
Birth and Death 11
Chapter Two
Themes and Titles 28
Chapter Three
A Question of Sin 44
Chapter Four
Conception and Misconception 59

Part Two: The Cistercians
Chapter Five
Cistercian Beginnings and Bernard of Clairvaux 79
Chapter Six
Two Disciples of Bernard: William of Saint-Thierry and Guerric of Igny 96
Chapter Seven
Bernard's Secretary and Biographer: Geoffrey of Auxerre 112
Chapter Eight
Two Travelers: Isaac of Stella and Amadeus of Lausanne 129
Chapter Nine
An English Abbot: Aelred of Rievaulx 148
Chapter Ten
Two Neglected Sources: Stephen of Sawley and Ogier of Locedio 166
Chapter Eleven
Mary at Forde: Baldwin, John, and Roger 190
Chapter Twelve
Mary and the Visionaries 207

Part Three: Armand-Jean de Rance
Chapter Thirteen
The Virgin at La Trappe 233
Chapter Fourteen
Armand-Jean de Rance: The Conference for the Feast of the Nativity of the Virgin 259
Chapter Fifteen
Armand-Jean de Rance: The Conference for the Feast of the Annunciation 284
Chapter Sixteen
Armand-Jean de Rance: The First Conference for the Feast of the Assumption 303
Chapter Seventeen
Armand-Jean de Rance: The Second Conference for the Feast of the Assumption 320
Chapter Eighteen
Armand-Jean de Rance: The Third Conference for the Feast of the Assumption 337
Chapter Nineteen
Drawing the Threads Together: The Cistercians and Mary 352

Select Bibliography 372
Index of Persons 381
Index of Principal Marian Themes 386

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• Comunidades e monasticismo cristão
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• Vida e prática cristã
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• Cristianismo

Cistercian; Bernard of Clairvaux