The intellectual dynamism of the High Middle Ages / edited by Clare Frances Monagle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Monagle, Clare, editor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Knowledge communities ; 9.

Knowledge communities ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Medieval.

Intellectual life--History.

Intellectual life.

History.

Mews, C. J.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

342 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Constant J. Mews's 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 ideas. Alongside his cutting-edge work on Abelard, he has been a leader in the study of medieval women writers, paying heed to Hildegard and Heloise in particular. Mews has also expanded our knowledge of medieval music, and its theoretical foundations. In Mews' Middle Ages, the world of ideas always belongs to a larger world: one that is cultural, gendered and politicized. The essays in this volume pay tribute to Constant, in spirit and in content, revealing a nuanced and integrated vision of the intellectual history of the medieval West.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Section 1 Twelfth-century Learning

1. Carnal Compassion Peter Abelard's Conflicted Approach to Empathy / Juanita Feros Ruys

2. From Wisdom to Science A Witness of the Theological Studies in Paris in the 1240s / Riccardo Saccenti

3. Authority and Innovation in Bernard of Clairvaux's De gratia et libero arbitrio / Marcia L. Colish

4. Words of Seduction A Letter from Hugh Metel to Bernard of Clairvaux / Rina Lahav

5. The Emotional Landscape of Abelard's Planctus David super Saul et Ionatha / Carol J. Williams

Section 2 Sanctity and Material Culture

6. Dirty Laundry Thomas Becket's Hair Shirt and the Making of a Saint / Cary J. Nederman

7. Significatio and Senefiance, or Relics in Thomas Aquinas and Jeande Meun / Earl Jeffrey Richards

8. The Cult of Thomas Aquinas's Relics at the Dawn of the Dominican Reform and the Great Western Schism / Marika Rasanen

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 / Janice Finder

10. A Sense of Proportion Jacobus Extending Boethius around 1300 / John N. Crossley

11. Utrum sapienti competat prolem habere? An Italian Debate / Sylvain Piron

12. Attuning to the Cosmos The Ethical Man's Mission from Plato to Petrarch / Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides

Section 4 Gender, Power, and Virtue in Early Modernity

13. The Miroir des dames, the Chapelet des vertus, and Christine de Pizan's Sources / Karen Green

14. In Praise of Women Giovanni Sabadino degli Arienti's Gynevera de le clare donne / Carolyn James

15. The Invention of the French Royal Mistress / Tracy Adams.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9462985936

9789462985933

OCLC:

1228477009

Publisher Number:

99990693923