Alan of Lille
：The Frontiers of Theology in the Later Twelfth Century
Publication subTitle ：The Frontiers of Theology in the Later Twelfth Century
Author： G. R. Evans
Publisher： Cambridge University Press
Publication year： 2009
E-ISBN: 9780511867767
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780521094269
Subject： B979 History of Christianity
Keyword： 宗教史、宗教地理
Language： ENG
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Alan of Lille
Description
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.
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