Rethinking Abelard

A Collection of Critical Essays

Gebonden Engels 2014 9789004262706
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Peter Abelard (1079-1142) is one of the most diversely gifted people of the Middle Ages. His letter writing, poetry, theology, logic, and ethics deal with almost every aspect of the trivium. This volume surveys his career to show how his extraordinary versatility enchanted and distressed his public. A selection of international specialists addresses the various aspects of Abelard's literary persona. The topics range from Abelard's personal history to his monastic thinking. There are essays on the letter collection, his views on love, ethical problems such as intention and suicide, his poetry and treatises written for Heloise and her nuns of the Paraclete. With its strong emphasis on interdisciplinary research, Rethinking Abelard opens up new avenues for future scholarship.

Contributors are: Michael T. Clanchy, Peter Cramer, Lesley-Anne Dyer, Juanita Feros Ruys, William Flynn, Babette Hellemans, Taina M. Holopainen, Eileen F. Kearney, Constant J. Mews, Eileen C. Sweeney, Ineke Van ‘t Spijker, Wim Verbaal, and Julian Yolles.

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ISBN13:9789004262706
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Gebonden
Aantal pagina's:356
Uitgever:Brill

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Preface
Note on Contributors
Introduction by Babette S. Hellemans

I. ABELARD IN CONTEXT

Abelard, Heloise, and Discussion of Love in the Twelfth-Century Schools
Constant Mews

Abelard and the Jews
Eileen C. Sweeney

Divine Omnipotence and the Liberal Arts in Peter Damian and Peter Abelard
Julian Yolles

Conflict and Correspondence. Inner and Outer in Abelard and Hugh of Saint-Victor
Ineke van ’t Spijker

II. CONTROVERSY AND EXCHANGE

Was Abelard right to deny that he wrote the book of "sentences"?
Michael Clanchy

Veiled Platonic Triads in Abelard’s Theologia ‘Summi Boni’
Lesley-Anne Dyer

III. SHAPING LIFE

Abelard and Rhetoric: Widows and Virgins at the Paraclete
William Flynn

Trapping the Future: Abelard's Multi-Layered Image-Building
Wim Verbaal

Intentions and Conscious Moral Choices in Peter Abelard’s “Know Yourself”
Taina M. Holopainen

‘He who kills himself liberates a wretch’: Abelard on Suicide
Juanita Feros Ruys

IV. POETICS AND POETRY
Peter Abelard’s Planctus ‘Dolorum solatium’: A New Song for David
Eileen F. Kearney

Abelard on the First Six Days
Peter Cramer

The Poetics of Abelard’s Ingenium
Babette S. Hellemans

Bibliography
Index

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