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Informationen zum Autor James Augustus Cotter Morison, an English essayist and historian, was born in London. His father, who had amassed a huge fortune as the inventor and proprietor of "Morison's Pills," lived in Paris until his death in 1840, and Cotter Morison thus gained not just knowledge of the French language, but also a deep affinity for France and French institutions. He was educated at Highgate School and Lincoln College, Oxford. Here he was influenced by Mark Pattison, to whom his receptive personality may have owed a certain over-fastidiousness that defined his entire career. He also met the main English Positivists and became a devout follower of their views. Nonetheless, he maintained a great affinity for the Roman Catholic religion and once spent several weeks in a Catholic convent. Another significant influence shows in the magnificent Life of St Bernard, which he published in 1863, that of his friend Carlyle, to whom the work is dedicated and whose style it is heavily influenced. Meanwhile, he had been a regular writer, first to the Literary Gazette, edited by his friend John Morley, and later to the Saturday Review during its most creative period. Klappentext An engaging, comprehensive biography by a leading Victorian essayist, first published in 1863, of the charismatic twelfth-century abbot and saint. Zusammenfassung This work, first published in 1863 by the Victorian essayist and political reformer James Cotter Morison (1832–88), presents a vivid and lively account of the twelfth-century reformer Saint Bernard and his tumultuous era, from the foundation of the Abbey of Clairvaux to the preaching of the Second Crusade. Inhaltsverzeichnis Book I: 1. Saint Bernard's birth; 2. Choice of a career; 3. Growth of Citeaux; 4. Foundation of the Order of Citeaux; 5. Saint Bernard's friend, William of Thierry; 6. Visits to Paris; 7. Secular episode; 8. Quarrel with the Bishop of Paris; 9. Literary compositions; Book II: 1. Death of Pope Honorius II; 2. William, Count of Aquitaine, still favours Anacletus; 3. Converts at Clairvaux; 4. Third journey to Italy; 5. Death of Saint Bernard's brother, Gerard; Book III: 1. Letter of William of St Thierry to Saint Bernard and the Bishop of Chartres; 2. Life of Peter Abelard up to the Council of Sens, AD 1140; 3. Theology of Abelard; 4. The Council of Sens; 5. Saint Bernard as a monk and ruler of monks; 6. The Immaculate Conception; Book IV: 1. Condition of Syria and the East up to the middle of the Twelfth Century; 2. The Second Crusade preached by Saint Bernard; 3. The Second Crusade; 4. Acts of Saint Bernard during the progress of the Crusade; 5. The last years of Saint Bernard....
