Die umstrittenen dionysischen Quellen im Briefwechsel zwischen Bernhard von Clairvaux und Guigo I. dem Kartäuser

Abstract
Denys the Areopagite, who called himself a disciple of St. Paul and appeared as receiver of the knowledge that the latter had earned during his raptus, is the author of the ‘Corpus Dionysiacum’, one of the main oeuvres of medieval mysticism. The analysis of dionysian sources in Bernard’s of Clairvaux treatise ‘De diligendo deo’ highlights an indirect dependence from the ‘Corpus Dionysiacum’, that appears especially in Bernard’s elaborations on mysticism of love as for example a letter sent to Guigo I the Carthusian. Taking KURT RUH’s programmatic studies on the history of the ‘Corpus Dionysiacum’ as starting point, this article critically explores the link between Bernard of Clairvaux, Guigo I the Carthusian and Denys the Areopagite through close reading of Bernard’s ‘De diligendo deo’ and of Guigo’s ‘Meditationes’. The analysis shows how subtle the connection between these two texts and the ‘Corpus Dionysiacum’ is and demands for a differentiated view on the dionysian source and its medieval elaborations.