Logic, theology, and poetry in Boethius, Abelard, and Alan of Lille
Subtitle: words in the absence of things
By: by Eileen Sweeney.
Series: New Middle Ages; New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Alanus, de Insulis, d. 1202 -- Criticism and interpretation; Abelard, Peter, 1079-1142 -- Criticism and interpretation; Boethius, d. 524; Boethius, d. 524 -- Poetic works; Boethius, d. 524 -- Influence; Latin poetry, Medieval and modern -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Christian poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- History and criticism; Christianity and literature -- History -- To 1500; Logic, Medieval, in literature; Theology in literature
Description: "This book offers an interpretation of the major logical, philosophical/theological, and poetic writings of Boethius, Abelard, and Alan of Lille. In this interdisciplinary study, Abelard and Alan of Lille are placed with Boethius as creatively reformulating the Boethian methods, vocabulary, and literary forms so influential in the 12th century. The author examines the theories of language of these thinkers and the ways in which those theories form part of their speculative projects and spiritual aspirations. What emerges are significant structural and narrative connections between the problems of how words illuminate things, how the mind comprehends God, and how the individual reaches beatitude."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.