Tervetuloa Glossan syksyn ensimmäiseen esitelmäiltaan tiistaina 28.9.2021 klo 17:00! ​Englanninkielisessä esitelmäillassa perehdymme 1100-luvulla vaikuttaneen sisterssiläsen mystikon Bernhard Clairvaux’laisen ajatteluun kahden puhujan johdolla: Professori Brian Patrick McGuire puhuu kirjastaan Bernard of Clairvaux. An Inner Life ja TT Anna-Riina Hakala pitää esitelmän otsikolla “Bernard of Clairvaux and 12th century sex complementarity” (abstrakti alla). Esitelmäilta järjestetään verkossa Zoomin välityksellä.

Professor Brian Patrick McGuire: “Bernard of Clairvaux. An Inner Life”

Professor McGuire will speak on his book Bernard of Clairvaux. An Inner Life. Cornell University Press 2020 (https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501751042/bernard-of-clairvaux/).

TT Anna-Riina Hakala: “Bernard of Clairvaux and 12th century sex complementarity”

Abstract: Bernard of Clairvaux’s view of the gender binary has been generally seen as hierarchical to the extent that salvation is envisioned as a definitive purification of connotations of womanhood. Close analysis of Bernard’s collection of letters gives a reason to think that he might have a more complementary view of woman and man than one would find possible based on readings of his sermons. A comparison between Hildegard of Bingen and Bernard brings out new ways of interpreting 12th century texts from a gender historical viewpoint and previously unexplored features of Bernard of Clairvaux’s gendered theology.