Editing Bernard of Clairvaux (section)

== Monastic and clerical preaching ==
As abbot, Bernard often addressed his community, but he also spoke to other monastics and, in one particularly famous case, to students of theology in Paris. He gave the sermon ''Ad clericos de conversione'' (to clerics on conversion) in 1139 or early 1140, to a group of scholars and student clerics.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Billy |first=Dennis |date=1995-12-24 |title=Preaching Conversion through the Beatitudes: Bernard of Clairvaux's Ad clericos de conversione |url=https://media.christendom.edu/1995/12/preaching-conversion-through-the-beatitudes-bernard-of-clairvauxs-ad-clericos-de-conversione/ |access-date=2024-10-15 |website=Christendom Media |language=en-US}}</ref> His many sermons on the [[Song of Songs]] belong to the often-studied sermons he addressed to the monks at Clairvaux.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Krahmer |first=Shawn M. |date=2000 |title=The Virile Bride of Bernard of Clairvaux |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3169582 |journal=Church History |volume=69 |issue=2 |pages=304–327 |doi=10.2307/3169582 |jstor=3169582 |issn=0009-6407}}</ref>