Vela Veritatis : : Hermeneutik, Wissen und Sprache in der Intellectual History des 12. Jahrhunderts / / Frank Bezner.

• Superior document: Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters ; 85
• VerfasserIn: Bezner, Frank,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden;, Boston : : BRILL,, 2005.
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English; German
• Series: Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters ; 85.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (712 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Hermeneutik, Wissen und Sprache in der Intellectual History des 12. Jahrhunderts
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 128086821X; 9786610868216; 1429453338; 9047407660; 1433704587
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Frank Bezner.

This study analyses the complex role played by the concept of a 'veiled truth' (integumentum) in the intellectual culture of the Twelfth Century. Eight chapters examine the concept in theological texts and milieux (e.g. Peter Abelard, Bernard of Clairvaux, Gilbert of Poitiers); in natural philosophy (William of Conches); in literary commentaries and literary theory; in literature (Bernard Silvester, Alan of Lille); and in methodological discussions of the Artes sermocinales and language (John of Salisbury). Key questions implied (and discussed) include: 12th-century reflections on the limits of human rationality; the impact of 12th-century methodological discussions for the evolution of Scholasticism; the nature and scope of medieval literary theory and hermeneutics; the importance of an interdisciplinary intellectual history for the understanding of medieval thought.