William of Saint-Thierry (1085–1148), Read by Patricia Ferris McGInn

https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15638a.htm

WRITINGS in chronological order, include:

• De contemplando Deo (On Contemplating God) in 1121–1124. This is sometimes paired with De natura et dignitate amoris (below) under the title Liber solioquiorum sancti Bernardi.^[2]
• De natura et dignitate amoris (On the Nature and Dignity of Love) around the same time. This is sometimes called the Liber beati Bernardi de amore.^[3]
• Oratio domni Willelmi (Prayer of Dom. William) in 1120s.
• Epistola ad Domnum Rupertum (Letter to Rupert of Deutz).
• De sacramento altaris (On the Sacrament of the Altar) which is the earliest Cistercian text on sacramental theology and written in 1122–23.^[4]
• Prologus ad Domnum Bernardum abbatem Claravallis (Preface to Sac Alt to Bernard).
• Brevis commentatio in Canticum canticorum (Brief Comments on the Song of Songs) his first exposition of this biblical text in mid-1120s, written shortly after his time of convalescence with Bernard at Clairvaux.^[5]
• Commentarius in Canticum canticorum e scriptis S. Ambrosii (Commentary on the Song of Songs from the Writings of St. Ambrose) around 1128.
• Excerpta ex libris sancti Gregorii super Canticum canticorum (Excerpts from the Books of St. Gregory [the Great] over the Song of Songs) around the same year.
• Responsio abbatum (Response of the Abbots) from the General Chapter of Benedictine abbots in the diocese of Reims in 1132.
• Meditativae orationes (Meditations on Prayer), written c1128-35.^[6][7]
• Expositio super Epistolam ad Romanos (Exposition of the Letter to the Romans), written c1137.^[8]
• De natura corporis et animae (On the Nature of the Body and the Soul), written c1138.^[9]
• Expositio super Canticum canticorum (Exposition over the Song of Songs) his longer commentary on the Song of Songs, written c1138.^[10]
• Disputatio adversus Petrum Abelardum (Disputation against Peter Abelard) as a letter to Bernard in 1139.
• Epistola ad Gaufridum Carnotensem episcopum et Bernardum abbatem Clarae-vallensem (preface to Disputatio).
• Epistola de erroribus Guillelmi de Conchis (Letter on the Errors of William of Conches) also addressed to Bernard in 1141.
• Sententiae de fide (Thoughts on Faith) in 1142 (now lost).
• Speculum fidei (Mirror of Faith) around 1142–1144.^[11]
• Aenigma fidei (Enigma of Faith), written c1142-44.^[12]
• Epistola ad fratres de Monte-Dei (Letter to the Brothers of Mont-Dieu, more often called The Golden Epistle) in 1144–1145.^[13]
• Vita prima Bernardi (First Life of Bernard) in 1147 which was later added to by other authors after Bernard’s death in 1153.