The Tongue of the Fathers
Subtitle: Gender and Ideology in Twelfth-Century Latin (Middle Ages Series)
Contributors: David Tonwsend (Editor); Andrew Taylor (Editor); David Townsend (Editor)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: May 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780812234404
Subjects: Gender Studies; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Medieval And Early Modern Latin Literature; Latin language, Medieval and modern; History - General History; Comparative And Contrastive Linguistics; Latin literature, Medieval and modern; Language Arts & Disciplines; Latin; Language; History and criticism; Medieval; Latin literature, Medieval and; Linguistics; Discourse analysis; Gender identity in literature; Latin language, Medieval and m
First sentence: At the conclusion of his Theologia "Summi boni", an extensive application of the categories of Porphyry's old logic to the nature of the Trinity, and one of his earliest major theological treatises, Abelard protests that his motives in writing are entirely disinterested: