Highlights: --A much needed new, critical edition of one of the most celebrated love affairs in western history --A central point of reference and enquiry into the European Renaissance of the Twelfth Century --Exposes keen rivalries among leading scholars and churchmen in twelfth-century France --Richly informative about lively debates between scholars in the twelfth century --Aids understanding of medieval love and marriage --Reveals the enormous grief of an unwilling but very wise abbess; provides...

Peter Abelard conducted many analyses of Scriptural and Patristic teachings, and achieved an extensive rapprochement between Christian and pagan thought. His public career was ended in 1140 by an ecclesiastical condemnation, but this touched upon the central issues facing the early leaders of the medieval scholastic movement and Abelard's own teachings continued to be controversial. Dr Luscombe considers the influence of Abelard's principal teachings among his contemporaries and successors. his aim...

The Middle Ages span a period of well over a millennium: from the emperor Constantine's Christian conversion in 312 to the early sixteenth century. During this time there was remarkable continuity of thought, but there were also many changes made in different philosophies: various breaks, revivals and rediscoveries. David Luscombe's history of Medieval Thought steers a clear path through this long period, beginning with three great influences on medieval philosophy: Augustine, Boethius, and Pseudo-Denis,...

A penetrating and historically important critique of medieval moral thought.