Virtue and ethics in the twelfth century / / edited by Istvan P. Bejczy and Richard G. Newhauser.

• Superior document: Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 130
• TeilnehmendeR: Bejczy, Istvan Pieter, 1965-; Newhauser, Richard, 1947-
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 130.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (399 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This volume analyses the renewal of Western moral thought in the twelfth century. This renewal was marked by a burgeoning of increasingly systematized texts, a lively reception of ancient moral philosophy and a greater emphasis on the psychology of the moral agent. Five contributions are devoted to...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material / István P. Bejczy and Richard G. Newhauser
• Introduction / István P. Bejczy
• Medieval Ethics and the Illusion of Interiority: Augustine, Anselm, Abelard / M.B. Pranger
• The Devil and Virtue: Anselm of Canterbury’s Universal Order / Arjo Vanderjagt
• In Conscience’s Court: Abelard’s Ethics as a Science of the Self / Willemien Otten
• Hugh of Saint Victor’s Virtue: Ambivalence and Gratuity / Ineke van ’t Spijker
• Bernard of Clairvaux’s De gradibus humilitatis et superbiae and the Postmodern Revisioning of Moral Philosophy / John Kitchen
• Claustrum animae: The Community as Example for Interior Reform / Jeroen W.J. Laemers
• The Problem of Natural Virtue / István P. Bejczy
• Rethinking Lying in the Twelfth Century / Marcia L. Colish
• Beyond Stoicism and Aristotelianism: John of Salisbury’s Skepticism and Twelfth-Century Moral Philosophy / Cary J. Nederman
• The Conflictus uitiorum et uirtutum Attributed to Stephen Langton / Riccardo Quinto
• The Virtues of “Rabbi Moyses” / George R. Wilkes
• Justice and Liberality: Opposition to Avarice in the Twelfth Century / Richard G. Newhauser
• Royal Justice and Royal Virtue in William of Malmesbury’s Historia Novella and Walter Map’s De Nugis Curialium / Björn Weiler
• Charlemagne and the Young Prince: A Didactic Poem on the Cardinal Virtues by Giles of Paris (C. 1200) / Céline Billot-Vilandrau
• Bibliography / István P. Bejczy and Richard G. Newhauser
• Index of Names / István P. Bejczy and Richard G. Newhauser
• Index of Subjects / István P. Bejczy and Richard G. Newhauser.