New studies on this twelfth-century Benedictine abbot who became a Cistercian monk and his keen intellectual life, insightful and creative thought, and his enduring influence.
William of Saint-Thierry (ca. 1080–1148) became abbot of the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Thierry in about 1119, holding that office for about sixteen years and writing a large number of works, some for
