Lawrence C. Braceland, (1912-1987) was professor of classics and dean at Ignatius College, Guelph (Canada), until in 1963 becoming professor of classics and dean of arts and sciences at St. Paul's College, the University of Manitoba. After his retirement in 1978, he devoted himself to Cistercian scholarship, publishing numerous articles and translating in four volumes all the works of the English Cistercian abbot Gilbert of Hoyland.

• CONTENTSAcknowledgment   1TREATISE 1 Contemplation of Heaven, to a Religious Called R   3​TREATISE 2 Here we seek, there we see according to measure   15​TREATISE 3 Joy differs on the way and in the Fatherland   23​TREATISE 4 On conversation and colloquy, the shadows of substance   33​TREATISE 5 Every best gift and every perfect grant   43​TREATISE 6 One the redemption, to a friend   47​TREATISE 7, part 1, On ambition and presumption, to Roger of Byland   57​TREATISE 7, part 2, On the burdens of and qualifications for office   67SERMON,  The word as a seed   83EPISTLE 1,  On friendship, to Brother Richard   87​EPISTLE 2, Vocation letter to Adam, a scholar   93EPISTLE 3, On perils of the court, to Brother William   99EPISTLE 4,  Declining a friend's request   107THE MILK OF BABES, a letter from Roger of Byland    109Master Gilbert, Abbot, in MS Bodley 87   127Prologus Gileberti Abbatius super Evangelium secundum Matthaeum   128Abbot Gilbert's Prologue on the Gospel according to Matthew   129Sermo de eodem secundum Matthaeum   132Item sermo de eodem [martyre]   162Likewise a sermon on the same martyr   163Notes to Master Gilbert, Abbot   183Appendix: A Letter to Abbot Gilbert from his translator   197Abbreviations   205Selected Bibliography   207Index to the Works of Gilbert of Hoyland   213

Lawrence C. Braceland, (1912-1987) was professor of classics and dean at Ignatius College, Guelph (Canada), until in 1963 becoming professor of classics and dean of arts and sciences at St. Paul's College, the University of Manitoba. After his retirement in 1978, he devoted himself to Cistercian scholarship, publishing numerous articles and translating in four volumes all the works of the English Cistercian abbot Gilbert of Hoyland.

• CONTENTSAcknowledgment   1TREATISE 1 Contemplation of Heaven, to a Religious Called R   3​TREATISE 2 Here we seek, there we see according to measure   15​TREATISE 3 Joy differs on the way and in the Fatherland   23​TREATISE 4 On conversation and colloquy, the shadows of substance   33​TREATISE 5 Every best gift and every perfect grant   43​TREATISE 6 One the redemption, to a friend   47​TREATISE 7, part 1, On ambition and presumption, to Roger of Byland   57​TREATISE 7, part 2, On the burdens of and qualifications for office   67SERMON,  The word as a seed   83EPISTLE 1,  On friendship, to Brother Richard   87​EPISTLE 2, Vocation letter to Adam, a scholar   93EPISTLE 3, On perils of the court, to Brother William   99EPISTLE 4,  Declining a friend's request   107THE MILK OF BABES, a letter from Roger of Byland    109Master Gilbert, Abbot, in MS Bodley 87   127Prologus Gileberti Abbatius super Evangelium secundum Matthaeum   128Abbot Gilbert's Prologue on the Gospel according to Matthew   129Sermo de eodem secundum Matthaeum   132Item sermo de eodem [martyre]   162Likewise a sermon on the same martyr   163Notes to Master Gilbert, Abbot   183Appendix: A Letter to Abbot Gilbert from his translator   197Abbreviations   205Selected Bibliography   207Index to the Works of Gilbert of Hoyland   213

Lawrence C. Braceland, (1912-1987) was professor of classics and dean at Ignatius College, Guelph (Canada), until in 1963 becoming professor of classics and dean of arts and sciences at St. Paul's College, the University of Manitoba. After his retirement in 1978, he devoted himself to Cistercian scholarship, publishing numerous articles and translating in four volumes all the works of the English Cistercian abbot Gilbert of Hoyland.

• CONTENTSAcknowledgment   1TREATISE 1 Contemplation of Heaven, to a Religious Called R   3​TREATISE 2 Here we seek, there we see according to measure   15​TREATISE 3 Joy differs on the way and in the Fatherland   23​TREATISE 4 On conversation and colloquy, the shadows of substance   33​TREATISE 5 Every best gift and every perfect grant   43​TREATISE 6 One the redemption, to a friend   47​TREATISE 7, part 1, On ambition and presumption, to Roger of Byland   57​TREATISE 7, part 2, On the burdens of and qualifications for office   67SERMON,  The word as a seed   83EPISTLE 1,  On friendship, to Brother Richard   87​EPISTLE 2, Vocation letter to Adam, a scholar   93EPISTLE 3, On perils of the court, to Brother William   99EPISTLE 4,  Declining a friend's request   107THE MILK OF BABES, a letter from Roger of Byland    109Master Gilbert, Abbot, in MS Bodley 87   127Prologus Gileberti Abbatius super Evangelium secundum Matthaeum   128Abbot Gilbert's Prologue on the Gospel according to Matthew   129Sermo de eodem secundum Matthaeum   132Item sermo de eodem [martyre]   162Likewise a sermon on the same martyr   163Notes to Master Gilbert, Abbot   183Appendix: A Letter to Abbot Gilbert from his translator   197Abbreviations   205Selected Bibliography   207Index to the Works of Gilbert of Hoyland   213