Arnold of Brescia

Arnold of Brescia, (1090-1155), was a monk from Italy who participated in the Commune of Rome and started the subsequent rebellion. Arnold of Brescia - Arnold's life in France. As a young priest, Arnold studied under the tutelage of famed reformer and poet, Pierre Abélard. He took to Abélard's philosophy of reform ways and became very critical of the Catholic Church when it became involved in a land struggle in Brescia. He called on the Church to renounce ownership of property and return it to the ...

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1144 - Events. Louis VII capitulates to Pope Celestine II and so earns the pope's absolution Pope Celestine II is succeeded by Pope Lucius II December 24 - County of Edessa falls to Zengi (see Siege of Edessa) Montauban, France, is founded First recorded example of an anti-Semitic blood libel in England Normandy comes under Angevin control under Geoffrey of Anjou First recorded mention of Ljubljana, Slovenia Arnold of Brescia founds revolutionar ...

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Brescia is a city in the region of Lombardy in northern Italy with a population of around 200,000. It is the second largest city in Lombardy, after Milan. The city is the administrative capital of the Province of Brescia, one of the largest in Italy, with about 1,000,000 inhabitants. The ancient city of Brixia, Brescia has been an important regional centre since pre-Roman times and a number of Roman and medieval monuments are preserved, among which is the prominent castle. The city is at the centre of the third-largest Italian ...

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1155 - Events. Frederick I Barbarossa crowned Holy Roman Emperor. Emperor Go-Shirakawa ascends to the throne of Japan. Robert of Chichester becomes Bishop of Exeter. 1155 - Births. February 28 - Henry the Young King, son of Henry II of England (died 1183) May 17 - Jien, Japanese poet and historian (d. 1225) November 11 - King Alfonso VIII of Castile (died 1214) Saito Musashibo Benkei, Japanese fighting monk Including:

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Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (Fontaines, near Dijon, 1090 – August 21, 1153 in Clairvaux) was a French abbot and theologian who was the main voice of conservatism during the intellectual revival of Western Europe called the Renaissance of the 12th century. The voice of conscience, the dominating figure in the Christian church from 1125 to 1153 (Cantor 1993), he was declared a Doctor of the Church in 1830. Bernard is a saint of the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches and was the ...

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• Bernard of Clairvaux - The contest with Abélard
• Bernard of Clairvaux - Bernard and the Cistercian Order
• Bernard of Clairvaux - Bernard and heresy
• Bernard of Clairvaux - The Second Crusade
• Bernard of Clairvaux - Bernard and the veneration of the Virgin Mary
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In 1147 Frederick became duke of Swabia and shortly afterwards made his first trip to the East, accompanying his uncle, the German king Conrad III, on the Second Crusade. The expedition proved to be a disaster, but Frederick distinguished himself and won the complete confidence of the king. When Conrad died in February 1152, only Frederick and the prince-bishop of Bamberg were at his deathbed. Both asserted afterwards that Conrad had, in full possession of his mental powers, handed the royal insignia to Frederick and indicated that he, rathe ...

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Before long the abbot, who had intended to devote his life to the work of his monastery, was drawn into the affairs of the outside world. When in 1124 Pope Honorius II was elected, Bernard was already reckoned among the greatest of French churchmen; he now shared in the most important ecclesiastical discussions, and papal legates sought his counsel. Thus in 1128 he was invited by Cardinal Matthew of Albano to the synod of Troyes, where he was instrumental in obtaining the recognition of the new order of Knights Templar, the rules of w ...

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Bernard of Clairvaux, Bernard of Clairvaux - Early life, Bernard of Clairvaux - Abbot of the Cistercian abbey of Clairvaux, Bernard of Clairvaux - Wider influence, Bernard of Clairvaux - The schism of 1130–1138, Bernard of Clairvaux - The contest with Abélard, Bernard of Clairvaux - Bernard and the Cistercian Order, Bernard of Clairvaux - Bernard and heresy, Bernard of Clairvaux - The Second Crusade, Bernard of Clairvaux - Bernard and the veneration of the Virgin Mary, Bernard of Clairvaux - Bernard's character, Bernard of Clairvaux - Works

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Brescia is the start and the arrival of the historical car race Mille Miglia that takes place every year in May. It is also the home of Brescia Calcio football club and Rugby Leonessa 1928. ...

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The little community of reformed Benedictines at Citeaux, which would have so profound an influence on Western monasticism, grew so rapidly that it was soon able to send out offshoots. One of these monasteries, Clairvaux, was founded in 1115, in a wild valley of a tributary of the Aube, on land given by Count Hugh of Troyes. There Bernard, a recent initiate, was appointed abbot. By the new constitution of the Cistercians, Clairvaux became the chief monastery of the five branches into which the order was divided under the supreme direc ...

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Bernard of Clairvaux, Bernard of Clairvaux - Early life, Bernard of Clairvaux - Abbot of the Cistercian abbey of Clairvaux, Bernard of Clairvaux - Wider influence, Bernard of Clairvaux - The schism of 1130–1138, Bernard of Clairvaux - The contest with Abélard, Bernard of Clairvaux - Bernard and the Cistercian Order, Bernard of Clairvaux - Bernard and heresy, Bernard of Clairvaux - The Second Crusade, Bernard of Clairvaux - Bernard and the veneration of the Virgin Mary, Bernard of Clairvaux - Bernard's character, Bernard of Clairvaux - Works

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Far more important was his activity in the following year, when, in obedience to the pope's command, he preached to promote the Second Crusade. The effect of his eloquence was extraordinary. At the great meeting at Vezelay, on March 21, as the result of his sermon, King Louis VII of France and his queen, Eleanor, took the cross, together with a host of all classes, so numerous that the stock of crosses was soon exhausted. Bernard continued through northern France, Flanders and the Rhine provinces, everywhere rousing the wildest en ...

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Bernard of Clairvaux, Bernard of Clairvaux - Early life, Bernard of Clairvaux - Abbot of the Cistercian abbey of Clairvaux, Bernard of Clairvaux - Wider influence, Bernard of Clairvaux - The schism of 1130–1138, Bernard of Clairvaux - The contest with Abélard, Bernard of Clairvaux - Bernard and the Cistercian Order, Bernard of Clairvaux - Bernard and heresy, Bernard of Clairvaux - The Second Crusade, Bernard of Clairvaux - Bernard and the veneration of the Virgin Mary, Bernard of Clairvaux - Bernard's character, Bernard of Clairvaux - Works

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The greatness of St Bernard is generally regarded as being his character. The age saw him as the embodiment of its ideal: that of medieval monasticism at its highest development. The world had no meaning for him save as a place of banishment and trial, in which men are but "strangers and pilgrims" (Serm. i., Epiph. n. I; Serm. vii., Lent. n. I); the way of grace, back to the lost inheritance, had been marked out, and the function of theology was merely to maintain the landmarks inherited from the past. He had no sympathy with the dialectics ...

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Bernard of Clairvaux, Bernard of Clairvaux - Early life, Bernard of Clairvaux - Abbot of the Cistercian abbey of Clairvaux, Bernard of Clairvaux - Wider influence, Bernard of Clairvaux - The schism of 1130–1138, Bernard of Clairvaux - The contest with Abélard, Bernard of Clairvaux - Bernard and the Cistercian Order, Bernard of Clairvaux - Bernard and heresy, Bernard of Clairvaux - The Second Crusade, Bernard of Clairvaux - Bernard and the veneration of the Virgin Mary, Bernard of Clairvaux - Bernard's character, Bernard of Clairvaux - Works

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