Overview

The twelfth century was a time of new ideas and creative innovation spurred on by patron-monarchs like King Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, poets like Marie de France and Chrtien de Troyes, lovers and intellectuals like Abelard and Heloise, and religious thinkers like Bernard of Clairvaux and Hildegard of Bingen. In his thoughtful introduction, Novikoff explores the term ""twelfth-century renaissance"" and whether or not it should be applied to a range of thinkers with differing outlooks and attitudes. With reference to this ongoing historiographical debate, Novikoff embraces the harmony of disharmonies and allows the authors of the twelfth century to define the period for themselves. He situates classic works against a broad backdrop of other sources, many appearing in translation for the first time, in order to highlight the period's diverse currents of thought. Sixteen black-and-white images are included.

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Author:   Alex J. Novikoff
Publisher:   University of Toronto Press
Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.640kg
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9781442605466

ISBN 10:   1442605464
Pages:   480
Publication Date:   14 December 2016
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1: Themes Chapter One: Spiritual Renewal and the Formation of Theology 1. Two Texts on the Eucharist Controversy a. Lanfranc, On the Body and Blood of the Lord b. Alberic of Monte Cassino, Against Berengar, On the Body and Blood of the Lord 2. Proving God: Anselm's Ontological Argument 3. Bernard of Clairvaux on Loving God 4. The Premonstratensian Challenge to Traditional Monasticism a. Anselm of Havelberg, Apologetic Letter b. Philip of Harvengt, On the Knowledge of Clerics 5. Cistercian Spirituality: Aelred of Rievaulx's Dialogue on the Soul 6. Hildegard of Bingen's Heavenly Visions a. Letter to Bernard of Clairvaux b. Book of Divine Works 7. The Life of Anastasius of Cluny, Monk and Hermit 8. Peter Abelard's Theology 9. Hugh of St-Victor on Sacred Learning: The Didascalicon 10. A Twelfth-Century Textbook: Peter Lombard's Sentences 11. Reading the Bible: The Glossa Ordinaria Chapter Two: Schools, Scholars, and the Liberal Arts 12. The Letter of Goswin of Mainz to his Student Walcher 13. Bernard of Chartres: The Socrates of the Twelfth Century 14. The Pedagogical Prologues of Thierry of Chartres 15. Guibert of Nogent Reflects on his Early Education 16. Herman of Tournai Describes his Teacher Odo 17. Peter Abelard, The Story of My Misfortunes 18. The Prologue to Abelard's Sic et Non 19. Three Contemporary Views of Abelard's Teachings a. Bernard of Clairvaux's Letter to Pope Innocent II b. The Life of Saint Goswin c. Otto of Freising, The Deeds of Frederick Barbarossa 20. Hugh of St-Victor on Secular Learning: The Didascalicon 21. John of Salisbury's Defense of the Liberal Arts 22. Philip of Harvengt on Clerical and Female Literacy 23. Peter of Blois on Clerics and the Liberal Arts 24. Godfrey of St-Victor: The Fountain of Philosophy 25. Gerald of Wales Satirizes the Study of Dialectic 26. Stephen of Tournai's Invective Against the New Learning 27. The Battle of the Seven Liberal Arts: A Trouv re's Satire on Academia Chapter Three: Polemical Confrontations with Jews, Muslims, and Heretics 28. Gilbert Crispin's Disputation with a Jew in London 29. Petrus Alfonsi's Dialogue Against the Jews 30. Peter the Venerable on Jews and Judaism a. Against the Inveterate Obduracy of the Jews b. Letter 130 to the King of France 31. The First Accusation of Ritual Murder: Norwich 1144 32. The Monk Rigord Explains the Reasons for the Expulsion of the Jews 33. Two Jewish Polemics Against Christianity a. Joseph Kimhi, Book of the Covenant b. Nizzahon Vetus 34. Peter the Venerable's Summa Against the Saracen Heresies 35. Anselm of Havelberg's Disputation with the Greeks in Constantinople 36. Bartholomew of Exeter's Penitential Condemning Superstitions 37. Bernard of Clairvaux's Sermon Against Heresy 38. Disciplinary Decrees of the Fourth Lateran Council Chapter Four: Establishing a New Order: Government and Law 39. The Constitutions of Clarendon 40. Richard FitzNeal's Dialogue of the Exchequer 41. Law and the Invention of Criminal Homicide a. Peace and Truce of God b. Huguccio, Summa on Gratian's Decretum c. Peter the Chanter, On Cases of Conscience 42. Rogerius, Questions on the Institutes of Justinian 43. Ivo of Chartres's Prologue to his Canonical Collection 44. The Decretists: Commentators on Gratian's Decretum 45. Peter of Blois: A Question Concerning Marriage Law 46. Roman Law and Legal Study in Italy a. Letter of Abbot Bernard III of St-Victor, Marseille b. Frederick I Barbarossa's Imperial Decree: Habita Chapter Five: Love and its Discontents 47. Abelard and Heloise Revisit their Love Affair 48. Andreas Capellanus, The Art of Courtly Love 49. Marie de France's Lay of the Two Lovers 50. Hispano-Arabic Love Poetry: A Source of Lyric Courtly Love? 51. The Troubadours a. William IX of Aquitaine, ""En Alvernhe part Limozi"" b. William IX of Aquitaine, ""Pos de chanter m'es prez talenz"" c. Jaufre Rudel, ""Lanquan li jorn son lonc en mai"" d. Bernart de Ventadorn, ""Chantars no m pot gaires valer"" e. Vida of Bernart de Ventadorn f. Comtessa de Dia, ""Ab joi ab joven m'apais"" 52. Love Lyrics from the Carmina Burana 53. The Romance of Tristan and Yseut 54. An Anonymous Lover's Lament 55. Love Songs of the Trouv res and Women Trouv res Part 2: Genres Chapter Six: Experimentations in Liturgical and Secular Poetry 56. Hildebert of Lavardin's Hymn on the Trinity 57. The Liturgical Poetry of Adam of St-Victor 58. Anonymous Sequences from St-Victor in Paris a. Laudes Crucis b. Templum Cordis 59. Marbod of Rennes: Poet of the Loire Valley 60. Poems of Nature and Patriotism 61. The Goliards: Poets of Wine, Women, and Song 62. Three Models of Secular Poetry 63. The Archpoet, Confession of Golias Chapter Seven: Art and Architecture: Theory and Practice 64. Abbot Suger on the Art Treasures of St-Denis 65. The Monk Theophilus's Treatise on the Diverse Arts 66. Bernard of Clairvaux's Protest Against Distracting Art 67. Herman-Judah and Rupert of Deutz Debate Religious Imagery 68. Peter the Chanter's Critique of Sumptuous Architecture 69. Alexander Neckam Describes Contemporary Arts and Crafts Chapter Eight: Historical Writing and Romance 70. Geoffrey of Monmouth, History of the Kings of Britain 71. Wace, The Roman de Brut 72. Galbert of Bruges on the Historical Method 73. Chronicles of the Deeds of the Counts of the Angevins 74. History and Legend of Richard the Lionheart a. Richard of Devizes's Chronicle of the Third Crusade b. A Song of Richard I c. Ambroise's History of the Holy War 75. Otto of Freising, History of the Two Cities 76. Walter Map Describes the Trifles of Courtiers 77. An Anonymous Chronicle of the Dukes and Princes of the Poles 78. Walter of Ch tillon, The Alexandreis Chapter Nine: Medicine, Science, and Translation 79. Medicine at Salerno: An Overview a. Master Matthaeus's Description of Constantine the African b. From Joannitius, Isagoge c. Bartholomew of Salerno, Second Salernitan Demonstration 80. The Trotula: The Salernitan Tradition of Gynecology 81. Petrus Alfonsi Urges the Study of Arab Science 82. The Topography of Arab-Latin Translations a. Hugo of Santalla, Art of Geomancy b. Preface to Burgundio's Translations of Chrysostom's Commentary on St John's Gospel c. The Inscription on Burgundio's Grave d. Avendeuth to the Bishop of Toledo e. Daniel of Morley, Philosophia f. Gerard of Cremona, Vita g. Paschalis Romanus, Kyranides h. Stephen on Antioch, Preface to the Theorica of the Liber regalis dispositionis 83. A Toledan Translator of Arabic Philosophy 84. Bernard Silvestris, The Cosmographia 85. William of Conches, A Dialogue on Natural Philosophy 86. Henry of Huntingdon's Verse Herbal Sources Index of Topics"

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Alex J. Novikoff's The Twelfth-Century Renaissance will save many instructors weeks at the library designing their own reading packages...I would highly recommend this volume to anyone planning on teaching a course focusing on the twelfth century on advanced undergraduate or graduate level...The reader will also be highly useful to scholars trying to figure out what the twelfth century was about, from whatever direction they approach this question. -- Elizabeth Lapina * Sehepunkte *

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Alex J. Novikoff teaches medieval history at Fordham University, where he has also served as the associate chair and director of undergraduate studies at the Center for Medieval Studies. He is the author of The Medieval Culture of Disputation: Pedagogy, Practice, and Performance (2013) and articles on medieval intellectual and cultural history, historiography, and interfaith relations. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Great Britain and a recipient of the Berlin Prize.

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