The Other Saint Bernard: The ‘Troubled and Varied Career’ of Bernard of Abbeville, Abbot of Tiron
Kathleen Thompson
Geoffrey Grossus' lengthy life of Bernard Abbeville leaves unanswered many questions. Comparison with contemporary sources suggests that was a career churchman an interest in ascetism and the apostolic life, who left his original house Poitiers because resistance to reforms he had introduced as abbot. A successful search for patron enabled him establish entirely new community at Tiron Perche, where able implement ideas, although did not remain forefront monastic thinking after death its charismatic founder 1116.
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History|White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds)