Alexandra Barratt is professor emeritus at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. She studied at the Universities of Cambridge and Toronto and has published extensively on religious writing by medieval women in Latin and English. She has previously translated Books One and Two (CF035) and Book Three (CF063) of The Herald for the Cistercian Fathers series.

• ContentsAcknowledgment   1TREATISE 1  Contemplation of Heaven, to a Religious called R   3TREATISE 2  Here we seek, there we see according to measure   15TREATISE 3  Joy differs on the way and in the Fatherland   23TREATISE 4  On conversation and colloquy, the shadows of substance   33TREATISE 5  Every best gift and every perfect grant   43TREATISE 6  On the redemption, to a friend   47TREATISE 7, part 1, On ambition and presumption, to Roger of Byland   57TREATISE 7, part 2, On the burdens of and qualifications for office   67SERMON,  The word as a seed   83​EPISTLE 1, On Friendship, to Brother Richard   87​EPISTLE 2, Vocation letter to Adam, a scholar   93​EPISTLE 3, On perils of the court, to Brother William   99​EPISTLE 4, Declining a friend's request   107THE MILK OF BABES, a letter from Roger of Byland   109Master Gilbert, Abbot, in MS Bodley 87   109Prologue Gileberti Abbatis super Evangelium secundum Matthaeum   128Abbot Gilbert's Prologue on the gospel according to Matthew   129Sermo de eodem secundum Matthaeum   132A Sermon on the same according to Matthew   133Item 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

Alexandra Barratt is professor emeritus at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. She studied at the Universities of Cambridge and Toronto and has published extensively on religious writing by medieval women in Latin and English. She has previously translated Books One and Two (CF035) and Book Three (CF063) of The Herald for the Cistercian Fathers series.

• ContentsAcknowledgment   1TREATISE 1  Contemplation of Heaven, to a Religious called R   3TREATISE 2  Here we seek, there we see according to measure   15TREATISE 3  Joy differs on the way and in the Fatherland   23TREATISE 4  On conversation and colloquy, the shadows of substance   33TREATISE 5  Every best gift and every perfect grant   43TREATISE 6  On the redemption, to a friend   47TREATISE 7, part 1, On ambition and presumption, to Roger of Byland   57TREATISE 7, part 2, On the burdens of and qualifications for office   67SERMON,  The word as a seed   83​EPISTLE 1, On Friendship, to Brother Richard   87​EPISTLE 2, Vocation letter to Adam, a scholar   93​EPISTLE 3, On perils of the court, to Brother William   99​EPISTLE 4, Declining a friend's request   107THE MILK OF BABES, a letter from Roger of Byland   109Master Gilbert, Abbot, in MS Bodley 87   109Prologue Gileberti Abbatis super Evangelium secundum Matthaeum   128Abbot Gilbert's Prologue on the gospel according to Matthew   129Sermo de eodem secundum Matthaeum   132A Sermon on the same according to Matthew   133Item 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

Alexandra Barratt is professor emeritus at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. She studied at the Universities of Cambridge and Toronto and has published extensively on religious writing by medieval women in Latin and English. She has previously translated Books One and Two (CF035) and Book Three (CF063) of The Herald for the Cistercian Fathers series.

• ContentsAcknowledgment   1TREATISE 1  Contemplation of Heaven, to a Religious called R   3TREATISE 2  Here we seek, there we see according to measure   15TREATISE 3  Joy differs on the way and in the Fatherland   23TREATISE 4  On conversation and colloquy, the shadows of substance   33TREATISE 5  Every best gift and every perfect grant   43TREATISE 6  On the redemption, to a friend   47TREATISE 7, part 1, On ambition and presumption, to Roger of Byland   57TREATISE 7, part 2, On the burdens of and qualifications for office   67SERMON,  The word as a seed   83​EPISTLE 1, On Friendship, to Brother Richard   87​EPISTLE 2, Vocation letter to Adam, a scholar   93​EPISTLE 3, On perils of the court, to Brother William   99​EPISTLE 4, Declining a friend's request   107THE MILK OF BABES, a letter from Roger of Byland   109Master Gilbert, Abbot, in MS Bodley 87   109Prologue Gileberti Abbatis super Evangelium secundum Matthaeum   128Abbot Gilbert's Prologue on the gospel according to Matthew   129Sermo de eodem secundum Matthaeum   132A Sermon on the same according to Matthew   133Item 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