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The Immeasurability of the Monastic Mind: Writing about Peter Abelard (1079–1142)
Ist Teil von
Journal of the history of ideas, 2021-10, Vol.82 (4), p.683-701
Ort / Verlag
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2021
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Paradoxes of Conscience in the High Middle Ages: Abelard, Heloise and the Archpoet by Peter Godman Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. The fragmented and unfinished way of thinking that emerged from this period is of a piece with the contemplative way of life from which its forms of thinking derived, particularly in Benedictine monasteries where thinkers reshaped the age-old tradition of ascetic life as they searched for a new understanding of learnedness, while also debating deviations from the monastic norm. The story of the affair is described in his famous autobiographical work, Historia calamitatum (History of my Misfortunes), to which authors like Petrarch, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Madame de Sévigné, and Alexander Pope explicitly refer in their own writings. In the avalanche of change both in society and church of twelfth-century France, a more stringent approach to scholastic scholarship emerged, while monastic learnedness was slowly losing ground in favor of the schools in and around Paris.