UID:
almahu_9947415164702882
Umfang:
1 online resource (xviii, 249 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511555220 (ebook)
Inhalt:
Alan of Lille was a notable figure in the second half of the twelfth century as a theologian and as a poet and he has seemed as rich and individual a writer to modern scholars as he did to his own contemporaries. This study examines his work as a whole, in an attempt to set his well-known literary achievement in the context of his theological writings. He was in many ways a pioneer, an experimenter with several of the new genres of his day, an innovator both as a teacher and as an author. He was not an original thinker so much as an eclectic, drawing on a wide range of the sources available to his contemporaries. He shows us what might be done by a lively-minded scholar with the resources of the day, within the schools of late twelfth-century France, to bring theology alive and make it interesting and challenging to his readers.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: ISBN 9780521246187
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511555220