Contents

pp 5-8

Introduction: Communities of Learning - Constant J. Mews

pp 9-22

Section 1 - Twelfth-century Learning

pp 23-24

1 - Carnal Compassion: Peter Abelard's Conflicted Approach to Empathy

pp 25-42

2 - From Wisdom to Science: A Witness of the Theological Studies in Paris in the 1240s

pp 43-62

3 - Authority and Innovation in Bernard of Clairvaux's De gratia et libero arbitrio

pp 63-82

4 - Words of Seduction: A Letter from Hugh Metel to Bernard of Clairvaux

pp 83-98

5 - The Emotional Landscape of Abelard's Planctus David super Saul et Ionatha

pp 99-128

Section 2 - Sanctity and Material Culture

pp 129-130

6 - Dirty Laundry: Thomas Becket's Hair Shirt and the Making of a Saint

pp 131-146

7 - Significatio and Senefiance, or Relics in Thomas Aquinas and Jean de Meun

pp 147-170

8 - The Cult of Thomas Aquinas's Relics at the Dawn of the Dominican Reform and the Great Western Schism

pp 171-190

Section 3 - Theological Transmissions: Intellectual Culture after 1200

pp 191-192

9 - Food for the Journey: The Thirteenth-Century French Version of Guiard of Laon's Sermon on the Twelve Fruits of the Eucharist

pp 193-212

10 - A Sense of Proportion: Jacobus Extending Boethius around 1300

pp 213-226

11 - Utrum sapienti competat prolem habere?: An Italian Debate

pp 227-248

12 - Attuning to the Cosmos: The Ethical Man's Mission from Plato to Petrarch

pp 249-276

Section 4 - Gender, Power, and Virtue in Early Modernity

pp 277-278

13 - The Miroir des dames, the Chapelet des vertus, and Christine de Pizan's Sources

pp 279-296

14 - In Praise of Women: Giovanni Sabadino degli Arienti's Gynevera de le clare donne

pp 297-316

15 - The Invention of the French Royal Mistress

pp 317-336

Epilogue

pp 337-342

Index

pp 343-343