Alan of Lille: The Frontiers of Theology in the Later Twelfth Century [Hardcover]

G. R. Evans (Author)

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Publication Date: September 30, 1983

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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Book 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.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press (September 30, 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0521246180
• ISBN-13: 978-0521246187
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.7 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,792,226 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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