From paradise to paradigm : a study of twelfth-century humanism /

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Author / Creator:	Otten, Willemien.
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 330 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 127 Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 127.
Subject:	Civilization, Medieval -- 12th century. Theology -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500. Philosophy, Medieval. Civilization, Medieval. Philosophy, Medieval. Theology -- Middle Ages. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11160790

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ISBN:	9781429427142 1429427140 1433705028 9781433705021 9789047406174 9047406176 1280859865 9781280859861 9786610859863 6610859868 9004140611 9789004140615
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-319) and indexes. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Otten, Willemien. From paradise to paradigm. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004
Standard no.:	10.1163/9789047406174

Table of Contents:

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.

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