search for books and compare prices
Tables of Contents for Scholastic Humanism and the Unification of Europe
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
x
Abbreviations and short titles
xi
PART THREE -- THE STRUGGLES OF SCHOLARS IN THE SCHOOLS
1
148
Introduction
3
4
Rupert of Deutz: A Voice of the Past
7
18
The two worlds in western Europe
7
1
Rupert's life, work, and world
8
6
Rupert's conflicts with the schools
14
7
Rupert's encounter with Norbert
14
4
Rupert confronts Anselm of Laon
18
3
The final grandeur of events
21
1
Ceremonies and symbols versus definitions and system
22
3
Master Anselm of Laon: the Master of Future Masters
25
11
The grounds of his scholastic fame
25
3
The master, the city, and the school
28
1
The development of his teaching
29
3
Master Anselm's contribution to the study of the Bible: the origin of the Glossa ordinaria
32
1
The completion of the Glossa by Master Anselm's successors
33
3
Master Anselm and the Origins of Systematic Theology
36
13
The scholastic routine: from glosses to sententiae
36
3
A student's collection of sententiae
39
1
Master Anselm's questions and answers
40
3
The bridge between the monastic past and the scholastic future
43
4
Summing up
47
2
Stumbling Towards System, c. 1100-1160
49
7
From sentences to system
49
2
Early collections of sententiae
51
3
British Library, MS Arundel 173
52
1
The Liber Pancrisis
53
1
The years between 1130 and 1160
54
2
Hugh of St Victor: A Systematic Genius Before his Time
56
10
His origin and scholarly beginnings
56
1
Towards a systematic world-view
57
2
Master Hugh in his classroom
59
2
Hugh's projected lectures on God in human history
61
4
Preliminaries
61
1
The stages of Creation and Re-Creation
61
4
Hugh's ambiguous position in scholastic development
65
1
Scholars at the Frontiers of Knowledge: William of Conches and Thierry of Chartres
66
24
William of Conches
67
12
His Philosophia mundi, c. 1110-1145
67
3
The division of functions in the human brain
70
3
The problem of the Anima mundi
73
1
William of Conches's losing struggle
74
3
The final version of Philosophia mundi: Dragmaticon
77
1
William of Conches and Adelard of Bath
77
2
Thierry of Chartres
79
10
Thierry on Rhetoric
80
1
Thierry on the Trinity
80
2
Thierry on the Creation
82
2
Thierry's anonymous pupil
84
2
Thierry's mathematical explanation of the Trinity
86
2
Summing up
88
1
Conclusion
89
1
Abelard at the Frontier of Logic and Theology
90
26
Introduction
90
3
Abelard's new beginning
93
2
Logic and the Holy Trinity
95
9
An unexpected source of opposition (Walter of Mortagne)
104
8
The enlargement of theology
112
4
The Decisive Battles of the 1140s
116
17
The road to conflict
116
3
The first battle: St Bernard and Abelard
119
2
The background to the first battle: William of St Thierry and St Bernard
121
2
The second battle: St Bernard and Gilbert de la Porree
123
7
The background
123
4
St Bernard's attack on Gilbert de la Porree
127
1
The case against Gilbert de la Porree at Reims in 1148
128
2
The significance of 1148
130
3
Peter Lombard: The Great Achiever
133
16
Introduction
133
1
The continuing problem of organization
134
3
Peter Lombard comes to Paris
137
1
Peter Lombard's patron: Odo (or Otto), Bishop of Lucca
138
2
Peter Lombard's career and work in Paris, c. 1138-1160
140
1
A comparison between his work and that of Bishop Odo of Lucca
141
3
Odo's Summa Sententiarum
141
1
Peter's Four Books of Sentences
142
2
Summing-up
144
5
PART FOUR -- THE STRUGGLES OF SCHOLARS IN THE WORLD
149
70
Introduction
151
4
Master Vacarius: A Roman Lawyer in English Government, c.1145 to c.1200
155
12
The legend and the reality
155
3
Why, and when, did Archbishop Theobald bring Vacarius to England?
158
1
The Liber pauperum
159
1
Vacarius in the archiepiscopal province of York
160
2
Vacarius' later writings
162
5
De assumpto homine
162
1
De matrimonio
163
1
A plea for orthodoxy
164
3
John of Salisbury: A Scholar at Large in Government
167
11
The end of his school-years
167
1
His transference to the world of government
168
10
His journeys to the papal curia
171
1
John's routine duties in the archbishop's household
172
1
John's application of learning to practical needs
172
6
The two Peters of Blois in the Schools and in Government
178
41
Introduction
178
2
Their relationship and personalities
180
1
The two Peters of Blois in the schools, c.1140-1165
181
5
c.1140-c.1150: studying literature and letter-writing at Tours
182
2
c.1150-c.1155: studying Roman law at Bologna
184
1
c.1155-c.1165: the Younger Peter studies theology in Paris
185
1
The younger Peter's search for employment, 1165-1174
186
4
His strengths and weaknesses
186
2
1165-1174: his struggle for survival in the great world
188
1
The Sicilian adventure, 1168-1170
189
1
A light in the gloom
189
1
Stability then uncertainty for the younger Peter
190
6
Chancellor of Richard, archbishop of Canterbury, 1174-1184
190
1
Peter renews contact with his namesake
191
1
1184: months of uncertainty and his letter-collection
192
2
Peter's continuing revision of his letter-collection
194
2
Peter and the third Crusade
196
1
Peter in the service of Baldwin, archbishop of Canterbury, 1184-1190
197
2
Peter and the call for a Crusade
199
5
Peter and the Archbishop of Canterbury on Crusade
201
2
Peter's difficulties after returning from the Crusade
203
1
Peter writes a last letter to his namesake
204
2
The two Peters of Blois as Poets
206
1
The letters and the world of Peter's old age
207
9
Epilogue: the letter-collection marches on
216
3
Index
219