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Title Rethinking Abelard : a collection of critical essays / edited by Babette S. Hellemans
Published Leiden : Brill, ©2014

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Description 1 online resource
Series Brill's studies in intellectual history
Brill's studies in intellectual history.
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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142
Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142
Philosophy, Medieval.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Medieval.
Philosophy, Medieval
Philosophy & Religion.
Philosophy.
Form Electronic book
Author Hellemans, Babette S., editor.
LC no. 2014006019
ISBN 9789004262713
9004262717
1306688981
9781306688987
9789004262706
9004262709