Intellectual Culture in Medieval Paris: Theologians and the University, c.1100-1330

Cover\n......Page 1
Intellectual Culture in Medieval Paris......Page 3
Title\n......Page 5
Copyright\n......Page 6
Dedication\n......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Preface......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Abbreviations......Page 15
Introduction......Page 17
1 The twelfth-century schools of northern France......Page 24
Competition, student power and the emergence of a new career......Page 25
The lure of logic......Page 33
Texts: interpreting authorities......Page 49
Sense perception......Page 53
Myth and poetry......Page 56
Diversity and conflict......Page 60
Towards universities......Page 63
2 The twelfth-century monasteries and Hugh of Saint Victor......Page 68
Anselm of Bec and Canterbury......Page 69
Bernard of Clairvaux......Page 75
William of Saint Thierry......Page 81
Hildegard of Bingen......Page 84
Conflict between monks and schoolmen......Page 88
Hugh of Saint Victor......Page 94
Institutionalization, cultural identity and a new discourse of learning......Page 103
Bonaventure......Page 140
Aquinas......Page 159
Conflict and condemnation......Page 177
4 Communication and control......Page 186
Self-image......Page 190
Generating a need for masters of theology and their judgements in Christian society......Page 200
Purgatory......Page 201
Hugh of Saint Victor......Page 207
Peter Lombard......Page 211
Peter Comestor......Page 214
Peter the Chanter......Page 217
William of Auvergne......Page 220
Aquinas......Page 228
Bonaventure......Page 233
Conclusion......Page 234
Ethic of intention......Page 236
Devil......Page 240
Quodlibetal disputations......Page 244
Preaching......Page 245
Confession......Page 255
Target audiences......Page 260
Conclusion......Page 261
5 Sex and marriage......Page 263
The nature of men and women......Page 264
Purpose......Page 266
Making a marriage: consent and consummation......Page 270
Marital affection......Page 274
Conjugal debt......Page 276
Sexual positions......Page 279
Times......Page 280
Sexual pleasure......Page 281
Marital problems......Page 288
The problems......Page 289
Discourse/language......Page 290
Problems for wife and husband, asked about both......Page 291
Problems for wife and husband, asked about the woman......Page 294
Alms......Page 298
Illicit sex, illegitimate children and telling the truth......Page 303
Usury......Page 305
6 Money......Page 309
Trade and the merchant......Page 312
Justice in exchange......Page 317
Condemnation of usury......Page 322
Justification of charging for credit......Page 334
Annuities: a case study......Page 339
Living with usury: tolerating a lesser evil......Page 361
Living with usury: usurious money......Page 364
Conclusion......Page 369
7 Anti-intellectual intellectuals in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries: a new context......Page 372
Jean de Meun and the Romance of the Rose......Page 373
Marguerite Porete and The Mirror of Simple Souls......Page 390
Eckhart......Page 408
Conclusion......Page 424
Bibliography......Page 431
Index......Page 453