Format:
XI, 356 S.
ISBN:
9789004262706
Series Statement:
Brill's studies in intellectual history Vol. 229
Content:
Contents; 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. - 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
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004262713
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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Philosophy
Keywords:
Abaelard, Peter 1079-1142
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Konferenzschrift
Author information:
Hellemans, Babette 1974-
