About the Book
These essays provide original reflections and new evidence for the lives and work of an outstanding medieval couple, Peter Abelard and Heloise. The main themes of the author's studies are the careers and the thought of Peter Abelard, his philosophy, theology and monastic teaching, his relationship in marriage and in religious life with Heloise and their correspondence. The essays, now brought together in a single volume, show how much is still to be learned from the presentation of new evidence and the opening of new enquiries about the lives and calamities of Peter Abelard and Heloise.
Table of Contents:
Contents;Preface ;Abbreviations ;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.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.;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. ;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.;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 3 (Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 2002), pp. 79-89. Reprinted by permission.;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.;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.;Peter Abelard: Theologian;8 ‘The School of Peter Abelard Revisited’, Vivarium XXX, I (Leiden, Brill, May 1992), pp.127-138. Reprinted by permission.;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.;10 ‘Peter Abelard and the Creation of the World’, Hombre y Naturaleza en el Pensiamento Medieval. Congreso Internacional de Filosofia Medieval – 70 LatinoAmericano. San Antonio de Padua, Buenos Aires 12-15 de octubre de 1999. Nuevo Mundo 1 (2000), pp. 81-93. Reprinted by permission.;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.;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 90 (Lewiston, The Edwin Mellen Press, 2002), pp. 445-460. Reprinted by permission.;13 (With Charles Burnett), ‘A New Student for Peter Abelard. The ;Marginalia in British Library Ms Cotton Faustina A. X’, Itinéraires ;de 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. ;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. ;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. ;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). ;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.;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).;19 ‘Monasticism in the Lives and Writings of Heloise and Abelard’, ;Monastic Studies. The Continuity of Tradition II, ed. J. Loades. ;Headstart History (Bangor, 1991), pp.1-11. Reprinted by permission.;20 Supplementary Notes;Bibliography;Index
About the Author :
David Luscombe is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History in the University of Sheffield and a Fellow of the British Academy.
