From paradise to paradigm a study of twelfth-century humanism - Otten, Willemien 1959- (Brill, 2004)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-319) and indexes
Acknowledgements; Preface; Understanding Medieval Humanism; Chapter One From Paradise to Paradigm. An Introduction to the Problem of Twelfth-Century Humanism; Chapter Two Nature and Scripture: Tale of a Medieval Analogy and Its Demise; Chapter Three Opening the Universe: William of Conches and the Art of Science; Chapter Four Opening the Mind: Peter Abelard and the Makeover of Traditional Theology; Chapter Five Fortune or Failure: the Problem of Grace, Free Will and Providence in Peter Abelard; Chapter Six Tragedy in the Twelfth-Century Rhetorical Imagination: Bernard Silvestris on Suicide
This book presents a study of twelfth-century humanism seen as an all-embracing discourse in which the human and the divine interact on equal terms. The book focuses on a number of twelfth-century intellectuals, especially Thierry of Chartres, Peter Abelard, William of Conches, Bernard Silvestris, and Alan of Lille. The book explains both the appeal and the demise of this humanism