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Letters of Peter Abelard, Beyond the Personal / translated by Jan M. Ziolkowski.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142.
- Series:
- Medieval Texts in Translation
- Medieval texts in translation
- Standardized Title:
- Letters. English. 2008
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142--Correspondence.
- Abelard, Peter.
- Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142--Translations into English.
- Abelard, Peter, -- 1079-1142--Correspondence--Translations into English.
- Abelard, Peter, -- 1079-1142 -- Correspondence -- Translations into English.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (286 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Comprehensive and learned translation of these texts affords insight into Abelard's thinking over a much longer sweep of time and offers snapshots of the great twelfth-century philosopher and theologian in a variety of contexts.
- Contents:
- Letter nine : to the Nuns of the Paraclete
- Prefaces to the three books of the Paraclete hymnal
- Dedication letter to the commentary on the six days of creation
- Letter sixteen : prologue to the sermons
- Letter ten : to Bernard of Clairvaux
- Letter fifteen : to his comrades, against Abbot Bernard
- Apologia against Bernard of Clairvaux
- Letter eleven : to Abbot Adam and the Monks of St. Denis
- Letter twelve : to a regular canon
- Letter thirteen : to an ignoramus in the field of dialectic
- Letter fourteen : to Bishop G[ilbert] and the clergy of Paris.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-217) and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8132-1707-5
- OCLC:
- 654820432
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