Book Listing\n\n\uD83D\uDCDA Book Details\n\n--Title:In Praise of the Virgin Mary the God-Bearer: Alan of Lilles Concise Elucidation of the Song of Songs (Cistercian Fathers Series 96)\n--Publisher : Liturgical Press\n--Publication date : 15 Nov 2025\n--Language : English\n--Print length : 204 pages\n--ISBN-10 : 0879074337\n--ISBN-13 : 978-0879074333\n--Item weight : 227 g\n--Dimensions : 1397 x 127 x 2159 cm\n\uD83D\uDCDD Description\n\nTranslated here in its entirety for the first time Alan of Lilles Elucidatio in Cantica Canticorum provides a measure for the originality of his Mariology. Fifty years after the death of Bernard of Clairvaux Alan of Lille died in 1202 or 1203 among the Cistercians at Cteaux. Celebrated in his own time as doctor universalis Alan made pioneering contributions in a variety of genres. Best known today for his influential epic poems the Anticlaudianus and the Complaint of Nature Alan also composed a theological dictionary a handbook for pr.