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Bernard of Clairvaux Author

Sr. Grace Remington, OCSO, has been a nun of Our Lady of the Mississippi Abbey near Dubuque, Iowa, since 1997. She studied Latin at Grinnell College, where she graduated with a degree in biology. She currently serves the community as cook, gardener, and raiser of chickens. Alice Chapman (PhD in 2006, University of Cambridge) is associate professor of history at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan. Her areas of interest are monasticism, medieval political thought, and spiritual health and wellness in the Middle Ages. She has published several articles on Bernard of Clairvaux, and her book, Authority and Power in the Writings of Bernard of Clairvaux, was published by Brepols in 2013.