Where did Bernard receive his early literary education?

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St. Bernard of Clairvaux St. Bernard of Clairvaux, detail of an altarpiece by the Florentine School, early 15th century; in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.

Bernard of Clairvaux began his early literary education at the school located at Châtillon-sur-Seine.1

Following the death of his mother in 1107, he turned away from this formal education and potential ecclesiastical advancement to pursue a life of solitude and renunciation, eventually joining the Cistercian community.1