The Intellectual Dynamism of the High Middle Ages /

The Intellectual Dynamism of the High Middle Ages / / ed. by Clare Monagle.

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Constant J. Mews's groundbreaking work reveals the wide world of medieval letters. Looking beyond the cathedral and the cloister for his investigations, and taking a broad view of intellectual practice in the Middle Ages, Mews demands that we expand our horizons as we explore the history of ide...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
MitwirkendeR:
Adams, Tracy,
Bollermann, Karen,
Colish, Marcia,
Crossley, John,
Green, Karen,
Howard, Peter,
James, Carolyn,
Lahav, Rina,
Laoutides, Eva,
Monagle, Clare,
Nederman, Cary,
Pinder, Janice,
Piron, Sylvain,
Richards, Earl,
Ruys, Juanita,
Räsänen, Marika,
Saccenti, Riccardo,
Williams, Carol,
HerausgeberIn:
Monagle, Clare,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Knowledge Communities ; 9
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Communities of Learning – Constant J. Mews
  • Section 1 Twelfth-century Learning
  • 1 Carnal Compassion Peter Abelard’s Conflicted Approach to Empathy
  • 2 From Wisdom to Science
  • 3 Authority and Innovation in Bernard of Clairvaux ’s De gratia et libero arbitrio
  • 4 Words of Seduction
  • 5 The Emotional Landscape of Abelard ’s Planctus David super Saul et Ionatha
  • Section 2 Sanctity and Material Culture
  • 6 Dirty Laundry Thomas Becket’s Hair Shirt and the Making of a Saint
  • 7 Significatio and Senefiance, or Relics in Thomas Aquinas and Jean de Meun
  • 8 The Cult of Thomas Aquinas’s Relics at the Dawn of the Dominican Reform and the Great Western Schism
  • Section 3 Theological Transmissions: Intellectual Culture after 1200
  • 9 Food for the Journey The Thirteenth-Century French Version of Guiard of Laon’s Sermon on the Twelve Fruits of the Eucharist
  • 10 A Sense of Proportion
  • 11 Utrum sapienti competat prolem habere?
  • 12 Attuning to the Cosmos
  • Section 4 Gender, Power, and Virtue in Early Modernity
  • 13 The Miroir des dames, the Chapelet des vertus, and Christine de Pizan’s Sources
  • 14 In Praise of Women Giovanni Sabadino degli Arienti’s Gynevera de le clare donne
  • 15 The Invention of the French Royal Mistress
  • Epilogue
  • Index

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