Peter Abelard and Heloise

337 Pages·2018·2.716 MB·English

by  David Luscombe

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Peter Abelard and Heloise

David Luscombe
Peter Abelard and Heloise
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contents
CONTENTS
Preface xi
Abbreviations xiii
Bibliography xv
1 ‘From Paris to the Paraclete: The correspondence of Abelard
and Heloise’, Raleigh Lecture on History. Proceedings of
the British Academy, 74 (1988; date of publication 1989),
pp. 247–283. © The British Academy. Reprinted by permission. 1
Peter Abelard: Philosopher
2 ‘Peter Abelard’, A History of Twelfth-Century Western
Philosophy, ed. P. Dronke (Cambridge University Press, 1988),
pp. 279–307. Paperback edition 1992. © Cambridge University
Press. Reprinted by permission. 35
3 ‘Nature in the thought of Peter Abelard’, La Filosofia della
Natura nel Medioevo. Atti del Terzo Congresso Internazionale
di Filosofia Medioevale (Milan, Società Editrice Vita e Pensiero,
1966), pp. 314–319. Reprinted by permission. 63
4 ‘Peter Abelard and the arts of language’, Media Latinitas.
A collection of essays to mark the occasion of the retirement of
L. J. Engels, ed. by R.I.A. Nip and others. Instrumenta Patristica
28 (Steenbrugge, Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, Belgium, 1996),
pp. 101–116. Reprinted by permission. 69
5 ‘Scientia and disciplina in the correspondence of Peter Abelard
and Heloise’, ‘Scientia’ und ‘disciplina’. Wissenstheorie und
Wissenschaftpraxis im 12. und 13. Jahrhundert, ed. R. Berndt,
M. Lutz- Bachmann and R.M.W. Stammberger. Erudiri Sapientia
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3 (Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 2002), pp. 79–89. Reprinted by
permission. 85
6 ‘The sense of innovation in the writings of Peter Abelard’,
Tradition, Innovation, Invention. Fortschrittsverweigerung und
Fortschrittsbewusstein im Mittelalter, ed. Hans- Joachim Schmidt.
Scrinium Friburgense. Veröffentlichungen des Mediaevistischen
Instituts der Universität Freiburg Schweiz 18 (Berlin, Walter de
Gruyter, 2005), pp. 181–194. Reprinted by permission. 97
7 ‘Peter Abelard and the poets’, Poetry and Philosophy
in the Middle Ages. A Festschrift for Peter Dronke, ed.
John Marenbon. Mittellateinische Studien und Texte, ed.
P. G. Schmidt, 29 (Leiden, Brill, 2001), pp. 155–171. Reprinted
by permission. 109
Peter Abelard: Theologian
8 ‘The school of Peter Abelard revisited’, Vivarium XXX, I
(Leiden, Brill, May 1992), pp. 127–138. Reprinted by permission. 127
9 ‘The Bible in the work of Peter Abelard and his “school”’, Neue
Richtungen in der hoch – und spätmittelalterlichen Bibelexegese,
ed. Robert E. Lerner. Schriften des Historischen Kollegs,
Kolloquien 32 (Munich, Walter de Gruyter, 1996), pp. 79–93.
Reprinted by permission. 137
10 ‘Peter Abelard and the creation of the world’, Hombre y
Naturaleza en el Pensiamento Medieval. Congreso Internacional
de Filosofia Medieval – 7 LatinoAmericano. San Antonio de
Padua, Buenos Aires 12–15 de octubre de 1999. Nuevo Mundo 1
(2000), pp. 81–93. Reprinted by permission. 153
11 ‘Peter Abelard’s carnal thoughts’, Medieval Theology and the
Natural Body, ed. Peter Biller and A. J. Minnis, York Studies in
Medieval Theology (University of York, York Medieval Press
1997), pp. 31–41. Reprinted by permission of Boydell & Brewer
Ltd. 163
12 ‘St Anselm and Abelard: A restatement’, Saint Anselm – A
Thinker for Yesterday and Today. Anselm’s Thought Viewed by
Our Contemporaries. Proceedings of the International Anselm
Conference, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Paris,
ed. C. Viola and F. Van Fleteren. Texts and Studies in Religion
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90 (Lewiston, The Edwin Mellen Press, 2002), pp. 445–460.
Reprinted by permission. 175
13 ‘A new student for Peter Abelard: The marginalia in British
Library MS Cotton Faustina A.X (with Charles Burnett)’,
Itinérairesde la raison. Études de philosophie médiévale offertes
à Maria Candida Pacheco, ed. J. F. Meirinhos. Fédération
Internationale des Instituts d’Études Médiévales. Textes et
Études du Moyen Âge 32 (Louvain- la- Neuve, Brepols Publishers,
Turnhout, Belgium, 2005), pp. 163–186. Reprinted by permission
of C. Burnett and Brepols Publishers. 187
14 ‘Berengar, defender of Peter Abelard’, Recherches de théologie
ancienne et médiévale 33 (Abbaye du Mont César, Louvain,
1966), pp. 319–337. Reprinted by permission of Peeters
Publishers, Leuven, Belgium. 207
Peter Abelard and Heloise
15 ‘The Letters of Heloise and Abelard since “Cluny, 1972”’,
Petrus Abaelardus (1079–1142). Person, Werk und Wirkung, ed.
R. Thomas in association with J. Jolivet, D. E. Luscombe and
L. M. De Rijk. Trierer Theologische Studien 38 (Trier, Paulinus
Verlag, 1980), pp. 19–29. Reprinted by permission. 227
16 ‘Peter Abelard and the abbey of the Paraclete’. For an earlier
French version of this essay see ‘Pierre Abélard et l’abbaye du
Paraclet’, Pierre Abélard. Colloque international de Nantes, ed.
J. Jolivet and H. Habrias. Collection ‘Histoire’ (Rennes, 2003),
pp. 215–229. 251
17 ‘Excerpts from the letter collection of Heloise and Abelard in
Notre Dame (Indiana) MS 30’, Pascua Mediaevalia. Studies
voor Prof. Dr. J. M. De Smet. Mediaevalia Lovaniensia, Series
1/Studies X (Universitaire Pers Leuven, 1983), pp. 529–544.
Reprinted by permission. 265
Peter Abelard: Monk
18 ‘Peter Abelard and monasticism’, For an earlier French version
of this essay see ‘Pierre Abélard et le monachisme’, Pierre
Abélard – Pierre le Vénérable. Centre national de la recherche
scientifique (1975), pp. 271–278. 283
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