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Rethinking Abelard : a collection of critical essays /

Drawing on recent scholarship, with essays by a selection of international scholars, this volume throws new light on the literary persona of Peter Abelard (1079-1142), one of the most diversely gifted people of the Middle Ages.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hellemans, Babette S. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Brill, ©2014.
Colección:Brill's studies in intellectual history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface; Note on Contributors; Introduction; Part One Abelard in Context; Abelard, Heloise, and Discussion of Love in the Twelfth-Century Schools; Abelard and the Jews; Divine Omnipotence and the Liberal Arts in Peter Damian and Peter Abelard; Conflict and Correspondence. Inner and Outer in Abelard and Hugh of Saint Victor; Part Two Controversy and Exchange; Was Abelard Right to Deny that He Had Written a Book of 'Sentences'?; Veiled Platonic Triads in Abelard's Theologia 'Summi Boni'; Part Three Shaping Life; Abelard and Rhetoric: Widows and Virgins at the Paraclete.
  • Trapping the Future: Abelard's Multi-Layered Image-BuildingIntentions and Conscious Moral Choices in Peter Abelard's Know Yourself; 'He who kills himself liberates a wretch': Abelard on Suicide; Part Four Poetics and Poetry; Peter Abelard's Planctus 'Dolorum solatium': A New Song for David; Abelard on the First Six Days; Abelard and the Poetics of Ingenium; Bibliography; Index.