ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. Bernard of Clairvaux revisited -- 2. Topic and structure -- 3. Position in the scholarly landscape -- 4. Topography in Bernard research -- 5. Theoretical considerations -- PART I SEMANTIC FRAME OF RESONANCE -- CHAPTER ONE MAPPINGS -- I. Mapping: Prolegomena -- 1. The hermeneutics of cartography -- 2. Man in space -- 3. Mappings of biblical topography -- a. Mapping biblical topography: Egeria's itinerary -- b. Mapping biblical topography: Jerome's etymologies -- c. Mapping biblical topography: Augustine's typologies -- II. Bernardine mapping -- 1. Bernard and the Bible -- 2. Intermezzo: Cassian and the four-fold exegesis -- 3. Bernardine exegeses -- 4. Text: SC 23 and the mapping of interpretation -- CHAPTER TWO TOPOGRAPHIES -- I. Textual topographies: Prolegomena -- 1. "Lokal" and "Raum" -- a. Lokal and Raum in Fontane and Goethe -- II. Textual topographies in Bernard -- 1. Lokal and Raum in Bernard -- 2. Fortified cities -- a. Fortified cities in Intravit sermons -- b. Fortified cities in the sermons In dedicatione ecclesiae -- 3. Jerusalem and Babylon -- a. Jerusalem and Babylon: Augustinian prologue -- b. Bernardine representations of Jerusalem and Babylon -- 4. Wildernesses -- a. Wildernesses: Biblical prologue -- b. Bernardine wildernesses -- 5. Pars pro toto -- 6. Text: Ep 2 and the topographical charge -- CHAPTER THREE TOPOGRAPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY -- I. Topographical anthropology: Prolegomena -- 1. New Testament bases -- II. The Bernardine peregrinus -- 1. Alienation from God -- 2. Alienation from alienation -- 3. The locales of the peregrinus -- a. Tents or cities -- b. Ways and stables -- c. Excursus: The ways of the viator -- 4. Text I: Ep 64 and the monastic Jerusalem -- 5. Text II: Quad 6 and the stages of alienation -- CHAPTER FOUR MEMORY -- I. Memory: Augustinian prolegomena.

II. Bernardine memories -- 1. Plana memoriae -- 2. Memory and the soul's capacity for God -- 3. The indigestion of the book of memory -- 4. Storage in memory -- 5. Recoding of memory -- 6. Oblivion -- 7. In search of the bridegroom -- 8. Text: SC 23 and the realms of memory -- CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSION AND TRANSITION -- PART II BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX'S PARABLES -- CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION -- I. Prologue -- 1. The parables and their investigators -- 2. Sitz-im-Leben -- II. Genre -- 1. Designations and collections -- 2. Form -- a. Parabola: Definitions and implications -- b. Medieval parabolae -- c. Parabolae as a means of shrouding and revealing -- d. Bernardine employments of parabola -- e. The hermeneutics of the parabolic form -- f. Prudentius's Psychomachia -- g. Anselm of Canterbury's similitudes -- h. Galand of Reigny's Parabolarium -- i. Conclusion as to parabolic form -- 3. Subject-matter -- 4. Epilogue -- CHAPTER TWO PARABOLA I, DE FILIO REGIS -- I. Summary -- II. Discussion -- 1. Paradise -- 2. Cumulative nature -- 3. The vice of wandering -- 4. The old robber -- 5. The ship -- 6. In regio dissimilitudinis -- a. Excursus: Regio dissimilitudinis -- 7. Leaving regio dissimilitudinis -- 8. The castle of Wisdom -- 9. Egypt: The topos of sin that comes back -- 10. The heavenly palace: Reformatio in melius -- 11. Topographical plot -- CHAPTER THREE PARABOLA II, DE CONFLICTU DUORUM REGUM -- I. Summary -- II. Discussion -- 1. Setting -- 2. Babylon and Jerusalem -- 3. Soldiers of Christ -- 4. The castle of Justice -- 5. The new Jerusalem -- 6. The breach in the wall: Topographical borderlines -- 7. Topographical plot -- CHAPTER FOUR PARABOLA III, DE FILIO REGIS SEDENTE SUPER EQUUM -- I. Summary -- II. Discussion -- 1. Setting -- 2. Nebuchadnezzar and David -- 3. The novice -- 4. Returns -- 5. The return of the novice -- 6. Mount Abarim.

a. Excursus on mountains: A question of point of view -- 7. Topographical plot -- CHAPTER FIVE PARABOLA IV, DE ECCLESIA QUAE CAPTIVA ERAT IN AEGYPTO -- I. Summary -- II. Discussion -- 1. The home of the king and his son -- 2. Egypt -- 3. The cubiculum -- 4. Departures -- 5. Babylon and Egypt -- 6. Ecclesia peregrinans -- 7. Topographical plot -- CHAPTER SIX PARABOLA V, DE TRIBUS FILIABUS REGIS -- I. Summary -- II. Discussion -- 1. The civitas of the human soul -- 2. Nebuchadnezzar and Antiochus -- 3. Topographical plot -- CHAPTER SEVEN PARABOLA VI, DE AETHIOPISSA QUAM FILIUS REGIS DUXIT UXOREM -- I. Summary -- Prologue -- Parable -- II. Discussion -- 1. Setting -- 2. The Aethiopissa -- 3. The thalamus of Mary -- 4. Christological topographies -- 5. The five windows of contemplation -- 6. The Church in Jerusalem -- 7. Topographical plot -- CHAPTER EIGHT PARABOLA VII, DE OCTO BEATITUDINIBUS -- I. Summary -- II. Discussion -- 1. The two plots of the parable -- 2. The monastic plot: Christ and the wayfarer -- a. The meeting in the road -- b. Doing business -- 3. The lapsarian plot -- a. Expulsion from Paradise -- b. Returning to Paradise -- c. Paradisus claustralis -- d. Memoria -- 4. Anthropology -- 5. Topographical plot -- CHAPTER NINE PARABOLA VIII, DE REGE ET SERVO QUEM DILEXIT -- I. Summary -- II. Discussion -- EPILOGUE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Other -- GENERAL INDEX -- INDEX OF BERNARD TEXTS.