Rethinking Abelard

A Collection of Critical Essays
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-26270-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 229, 356 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 703 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hellemans, Babette S

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Mittelalterliche & Scholastische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Mittel- & Neulateinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Babette S. Hellemans, Ph.D. (2006), Utrecht University and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, is lecturer in Cultural and Medieval History at the University of Groningen. She has published several books and articles on cultural history, and medieval perspectives on time, memory and history. Hellemans is in the process of writing The Varieties of the Self: An Intellectual Biography of Peter Abelard.