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The School of Self-Knowledge: A Symposium from Medieval Sources translated by G. Webb and A. Walker. Three Cistercians of the school of St Bernard are the authors of these writings on self-knowledge as the road to true health of soul. The writing, which dates from the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, is of a deeply personal, experimental and devotional character. One notices a debt here, not only to the Cistercian fathers, but to the school of St. Victor, which tended to be more speculative.
ISBN 1 901157 57 1, 49 pages, paperback, £3.95 ($4.50 in USA). More info. Add to shopping basket
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On the Nature and Dignity of Love by William of St. Thierry (trans. G. Webb and A. Walker). William of St. Thierry (c.1085-1148), little known until recently, has, in the last few decades, come to be appreciated as one of the great spiritual masters of the Middle Ages. For him, love begins as a neutral faculty for doing good or evil indifferently.The direction taken by desire is specified either by self-will, which inclines to sin, or by the coming of the Holy Spirit (Who is the will of the Father and the Son), Who turns the human will into love.
ISBN 1 901157 54 7, 63 pages, paperback, £3.95 ($5.00 in USA). More info. Add to shopping basket
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On Contemplating God by William of St. Thierry (trans. G. Webb and A. Walker). William of St. Thierry was a Benedictine contemplative whose writings are charged with a particular beauty and intellectual power. He is known to have exercised a great formative influence on St. Bernard.
ISBN 1 901157 55 5, 41 pages, paperback, £3.95 ($4.50 in USA). More info. Add to shopping basket
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Letter to My Sister by St. Aelred of Rievaulx (trans. G. Webb and A. Walker). Towards the end of his life, St. Aelred received a request from his sister, an anchorite, for a rule of life. This is his reply. The topics he addresses include the liturgy of the hours, fasting, almsgiving, the place of work and recreation, and the seasons of the year. Aelred then develops a meditation on Our Lord's life in the Gospel, which is surely one of the most beautiful ever written. This is followed by the saint's account of his own life.
ISBN 1 901157 52 0, 64 pages, paperback, £3.95 ($5.00 in USA). More info. Add to shopping basket
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Letters of
Spiritual Direction by Jacques-Benigne Bossuet (trans. G. Webb and A. Walker). In the English-speaking world Bossuet is perhaps chiefly remembered for his controversy with Fénélon; yet he was an authentic spiritual master in the tradition of St Francis de Sales, whose letters helped souls lead a devout life in that most worldly of worlds, Versailles under Louis XIV.
ISBN 1 901157 56 3, 72 pages, paperback, £3.95 ($5.00 in USA). More info. Add to shopping basket
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On Jesus at Twelve Years Old by St. Aelred of Rievaulx (trans. G. Webb and A. Walker). An exposition of St. Luke's account of the finding of Our Lord in the Temple, which shows how our model of life is to be found in Christ's life on earth. An ideal introduction to the beautiful writings of St. Aelred, one of the great masters of the spiritual life.
ISBN 1 901157 51 2, 71 pages, paperback, £3.95 ($5.00 in USA). More info. Add to shopping basket
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The Steps of Humility by St. Bernard (trans. G. Webb and A. Walker). A striking commentary on the seventh chapter of the Rule of St. Benedict, which the young abbot of Clairvaux wrote down at the express urging of his monks.
ISBN 1 901157 53 9, 87 pages, paperback, £3.95 ($6.00 in USA). More info. Add to shopping basket
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