Bernhard von Clairvaux. Leben und Werk des beruhmten Zisterziensers.(Review)

Peter Dinzelbacher was well prepared to write Bernhard von Clairvaux. Leben und Werk des beruhmten Zisterziensers (Darmstadt: Primus Verl., 1998; pp. x+497, 12 pls. DM78), having been an editor of the first volume of the recent German translation of Bernard's works, as well as the author of many works on the spirituality and thought world of the period. The book should appeal both to specialists, who will appreciate his wide learning, and to a wider audience, who will find its argument clear, though whether it will understand at a glance Greek words like proteptikos and synanachrosis one may doubt. Such readers would surely have been helped if he had referred to the German …