Exposition on the Song of Songs / / William of Saint Thierry.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Thierry, William of Saint,
• MitwirkendeR: Dechanet, J. -M.,; OSB, J.-M. Déchanet,; OSB, Mother Columba Hart,; Saint Thierry, William of,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Monastic Studies Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (219 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; PREFACE --; FIRST SONG --; SECOND SONG --; ANALYTIC INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463218249; 9783111024141; 9783110663037
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463218249
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: William of Saint Thierry.

In the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, The Song of Songs was a favorite book of Cistercian monks. Bernard of Clairvaux, Gilbert of Hoyland, and John of Ford, as well as William of Saint Thierry, read it as a dialogue between Christ the Bridegroom and the human soul, the Bride. William of Saint Thierry began composing his commentary soon after entering the Cistercian abbey of Signy in 1135. Having left behind a busy life as a Benedictine abbot and author of theological treatises, he turned to writing meditations on Scripture as the means of listening to the voice of the Beloved.