| Alan of Lille: The Frontiers of Theology in the Later Twelfth Century Contributor(s): Evans, G. R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521094267 ISBN-13: 9780521094269 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $44.64 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2009 Annotation: Alan of Lille was a notable figure in the second half of the twelfth century as a theologian and as a poet. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christian Theology - General - Religion | History |
| Dewey: 230.209 |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.76 lbs) 268 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Catholic - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. 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. |