Abelard: A Medieval Life Paperback - 1999
by Clanchy, M.T
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Details
- Title Abelard: A Medieval Life
- Author Clanchy, M.T
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Thus
- Condition New
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Blackwell, Malden, MA
- Date 1999
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # 224198
- ISBN 9780631214441 / 0631214445
- Weight 1.39 lbs (0.63 kg)
- Dimensions 9.02 x 6.02 x 1.25 in (22.91 x 15.29 x 3.18 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
- Cultural Region: French
- Religious Orientation: Catholic
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Library of Congress subjects Theologians - France - Biography, Abelard, Peter
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00269796
- Dewey Decimal Code B
First line
From the rear cover
Because Abelard touched so many aspects of life, this book is structured naturally around the roles he played. The author describes in vivid and concrete terms what it meant in the twelfth century to be a famous scientist (the master of Latin, logic and philosophy), then a dedicated monk and pioneer of the discipline of theology - and yet one who was at various times a wandering scholar, courtier and jester. The author's many new findings include the discovery that it was Heloise who inspired many of Abelard's most profound ideas. She educated him: up to now historians have assumed it to be the other way round.
This, the first biography of Abelard for over 30 years, combines the most recent international research with a re-reading of the sources line by line.
