Burcht PrangerBurcht Pranger is Professor Emeritus in the History of Christianity at the University of Amsterdam. He has published extensively on medieval monasticism, in particular Anselm of Canterbury and Bernard of Clairvaux. Among his books are Bernard of Claivaux and the Shape of Monastic Thought (Brill 1994) and The Artifi ciality of Christianity: Essays on the Poetics of Monasticism (Stanford 2003). In 2010 he published his Eternity's Ennui: Temporality, Perseverance and Voice in Augustine and Western Literature (Brill). Read More Read Less