The Intellectual Dynamism of the High Middle Ages
Published on 1. October 2025
344 pages
978-1-040-79884-3 (ISBN)
Description
The essays in The Intellectual Dynamism of the High Middle Ages pay tribute to the work and impact of Constant J. Mews, in spirit and in content, revealing a nuanced and integrated vision of the intellectual history of the medieval West. Mews's groundbreaking work has revealed the wide world of medieval letters: looking beyond the cathedral and the cloister for his investigations, and taking a broad view of intellectual practice in the Middle Ages, Mews has demanded that we expand our horizons as we explore the history of ideas. Alongside his cutting-edge work on Abelard, he has been a leader in the study of medieval women writers, paying heed to Hildegard and Heloise in particular. In Mews' Middle Ages, the world of ideas always belongs to a larger world: one that is cultural, gendered, and politicized.
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Language
English
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London
United Kingdom
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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1,35 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-040-79884-3 (9781040798843)
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The Intellectual Dynamism of the High Middle Ages
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The Intellectual Dynamism of the High Middle Ages
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Clare Monagle is Professor of History in the Department of History and Archaeology at Macquarie University. Her books include Orthodoxy and Controversy in Twelfth-Century Religious Discourse for Brepols in 2013, and Scholastic Affect in 2020, for Cambridge University Press Elements series.
Content
Introduction: Communities of Learning (Clare Monagle), Section 1: Twelfth-century Learning, Chapter 1: Carnal Compassion: Peter Abelard's conflicted approach to empathy (Juanita Feros Ruys), Chapter 2:From Wisdom to Science: A witness of the theological studies in Paris in the 1240s (Riccardo Saccenti), Chapter 3: Authority and Innovation in Bernard of Clairvaux's De gratia et liberio arbitrario (Marcia Colish), Chapter 4: Words of Seduction - a Letter from Hugh Metel to Bernard of Clairvaux (Rina Lahav), Chapter 5: The Emotional Landscape of Abelard's Planctus David super Saul et Ionatha (Carol Williams), Section 2: Sanctity and Material Culture, Chapter 6: Dirty Laundry: Thomas Becket's hair-shirt and the making of a Saint (Karen Bollermann and Cary Nederman), Chapter 7: Relics in Thomas Aquinas and Jean de Meun (Earl Jeffrey Richards), Chapter 8: The Cult of Thomas Aquinas's Relics at the Dawn of the Dominican Reform and the Great Western Schism (Marika Raesaenen),S ection 3: Theological Transmissions: Intellectual Culture after 1200, Chapter 9: Food for the Journey: The thirteenth-century French version of Guiard of Laon's sermon on the twelve fruits of the Eucharist (Janice Pinder), Chapter 10: A Sense of Proportion: Jacobus extending Boethius around 1300 (John Crossley), Chapter 11: Utrum sapienti competat prolem habere? An Italian debate (Sylvain Piron), Chapter 12: Attuning to the Cosmos: The ethical man's mission from Plato to Petrarch (Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides), Section 4: Gender, Power and Virtue in Early Modernity, Chapter 13: The Miroir des dames, the Chapelet des vertus, and Christine de Pizan's Sources (Karen Green), Chapter 14: In Praise of Women: Giovanni Sabadino degli Arienti's Gynevera de le clare donne (Carolyn James), Chapter 15: The Invention of the French Royal Mistress (Tracy Adams), Epilogue (Peter Howard), Index.
