IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 1304: Peter Abelard & Liberal Arts, IV: Scholarly Identities
Wednesday 13 July 2011, 16.30-18.00
| Organiser: | Babette Hellemans, Instituut voor Geschiedenis, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Sverre Bagge, Senter for middelalderstudier, Universitetet i Bergen |
| Paper 1304-a | Abelard and the Jews (Language: English) Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Philosophy, Theology |
| Paper 1304-b | Authenticity in Authorship: Was Abelard Right to Deny that he Had Written the Book of Sentences Attributed to Him by St Bernard? (Language: English) Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Teaching the Middle Ages |
| Paper 1304-c | Abelard's Ethics and the School at Laon (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Language and Literature - Latin, Learning (The Classical Inheritance), Theology |
| Abstract | The fourth -and last- session on Peter Abelard & Liberal Arts will tackle Abelardian claims of (scholarly) identities. The first paper examines how Abelard both credits the Jews with knowledge of God and the ethical good but then criticizes them harshly, and how Abelard thinks about Jews in his Commentary on Romans. The second paper will discuss how Abelard denied writing anything called a 'book of sentences', even though many 'sentences' attributed to him occur in manuscripts. To emphasize his authorship, he gave titles to his own books, 'Theologia' for example or 'Ethica'. In what sense was he the author of the 'sentences' circulating in his name? The last paper will look at how recent new work on the contested notion of the 'school of Laon' may cause us to reinterpret what are often thought to be distinctively 'Abelardian' themes in discussion of ethics. |