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ALAN OF LILLE
THE FRONTIERS OF THEOLOGY IN THE LATER TWELFTH CENTURY |
| By: |
G. R. Evans |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£85.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0511555229 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780511555220 |
| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
11 March, 2010 |
| Description: |
Alan of Lille was a notable figure in the second half of the twelfth century as a theologian and as a poet. |
| Synopsis: |
Alan of Lille was a notable figure in the second half of the twelfth century as a theologian and as a poet and he has seemed as rich and individual a writer to modern scholars as he did to his own contemporaries. This study examines his work as a whole, in an attempt to set his well-known literary achievement in the context of his theological writings. He was in many ways a pioneer, an experimenter with several of the new genres of his day, an innovator both as a teacher and as an author. He was not an original thinker so much as an eclectic, drawing on a wide range of the sources available to his contemporaries. He shows us what might be done by a lively-minded scholar with the resources of the day, within the schools of late twelfth-century France, to bring theology alive and make it interesting and challenging to his readers. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing) |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |