Bernard of Clairvaux

Prof. Hanko is professor of Church History and New Testament in the Protestant Reformed Seminary. It is impossible to understand the history of the church in the Middle Ages without having some idea of monasticism. Monasticism was so common, so much a part of medieval life, so influential in the history of the church in this period, that every aspect of the church's life was shaped and formed in the monasteries. Although monasticism began very early in the history of the church (it was...