Positive reconstruction · reader-scoped, not an inferred-absence lacuna
This reconstruction covers the readable fraction of Thomas Aquinas's formation -- attested reading and writing only, not the whole of a life.
Thomas Aquinas and De Consideratione
Thomas Aquinas's attested relationship to De Consideratione.
Thomas Aquinas is attested as having read this work by Bernard of Clairvaux.
Evidence ledger
- The Summa's treatise on the contemplative life cites Bernard of Clairvaux's De Consideratione.