MONKS AND LOVE IN TWELFTH-CENTUR Y FRANCE: PSYCHO-HISTORI IN THANE

Contents: I) INTRODUCTION: MODERN PSYCHOLOGY AND THE MEDIEVAL PSYCHE - II) NEW RECRUITMENT - NEW PSYCHOLOGY: I) Adult recruitment - II) Psychological implications - III) The unpredictable St. Bernard - III) A BIBLICAL MASTER OF LOVE: SOLOMON: I) The Solomon of the Song of Songs and others - II) A symbolic tradition- III) A spontaneous symbolism - IV) The school of the liturgy - V) A methodical formation - VI) From images to realities - VII) Different keys to interpretation - VIII) In the lineage of St. Bernard - IV) ANOTHER MASTER IN THE ART OF LOVING: OVID: I) Cicero forerunner to Ovid - II) The ovidian complex - III) Ovid and monks - IV) The secular's Ovid - V) The french Ovid - VI) Pagan writings and Holy Scripture - V) AGGRESSIVENESS OR REPRESSION IN ST. BERNARD AND IN HIS MONKS: I) Two levels of psyche in two forms of writings - II) Social aggressiveness as reflected in St. Bernard - III) Transformation of a desire for human love into a desire for union with God - IV) Conclusion. The oneness of the two psychic levels in St. Bernard - VI) CHAMPAGNE AS A GARDEN OF LOVE: The castles - II) The synagogue - III) The court - IV) The riddle of Andrew the Chaplain - V) Héloïse and the Paraclete - VI) St. Bernard and the Bride of the Song of Songs - VII) Erec and Enide - VII) EPILOGUE. BERNARD AND DANTE: THE BRIDE AND BEATRICE: I) Love and women - II) Two similar processes: personification and sublimation - III) Two similar results: renunciation and integration - IV) Mary and the Eternal Feminine - INDEX.