Contents

pp.：  5 – 6

Preface

pp.：  7 – 7

Note on Contributors

pp.：  8 – 12

Introduction

pp.：  13 – 20

Part One Abelard in Context

pp.：  21 – 22

Abelard, Heloise, and Discussion of Love in the Twelfth-Century Schools

pp.：  23 – 48

Abelard and the Jews

pp.：  49 – 71

Divine Omnipotence and the Liberal Arts in Peter Damian and Peter Abelard

pp.：  72 – 95

Conflict and Correspondence. Inner and Outer in Abelard and Hugh of Saint Victor

pp.：  96 – 114

Part Two Controversy and Exchange

pp.：  115 – 116

Was Abelard Right to Deny that He Had Written a Book of ‘Sentences’?

pp.：  117 – 130

Veiled Platonic Triads in Abelard’s Theologia ‘Summi Boni’

pp.：  131 – 164

Part Three Shaping Life

pp.：  165 – 166

Abelard and Rhetoric: Widows and Virgins at the Paraclete

pp.：  167 – 198

Trapping the Future: Abelard’s Multi-Layered Image-Building

pp.：  199 – 224

Intentions and Conscious Moral Choices in Peter Abelard’s Know Yourself

pp.：  225 – 241

‘He who kills himself liberates a wretch’: Abelard on Suicide

pp.：  242 – 262

Part Four Poetics and Poetry

pp.：  263 – 264

Peter Abelard’s Planctus ‘Dolorum solatium’: A New Song for David

pp.：  265 – 293

Abelard on the First Six Days

pp.：  294 – 309

Abelard and the Poetics of Ingenium

pp.：  310 – 333

Bibliography

pp.：  334 – 361

Index

pp.：  362 – 368