Honey and Salt: Selected Spiritual Writings of Bernard of Clairvaux
St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) was born in Burgundy, France. He founded hundreds of monasteries and was canonized soon after his death.John F. Thornton is a literary agent, former publishing execuitve, and the coeditor, with Katharine Washburn, ofDumbing Down(1996) andTongues of Angels, Tongues of Men: A Book of Sermons(1999). He lives in New York City.Susan B. Varenne is a New York City teacher with a strong avocational interest in and wide experience of spiritual literature. She holds an M.A. from the University of Chicago Divinity School and a Ph.D. from Columbia University.James J. O’Donnell is a professor of classics and provost of Georgetown University. He has served as president of the American Philological Association and is a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America. He has published widely on the cultural history of the late antique Mediterranean world. His most recent book isAugustine: A New Biography(2005).