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This book offers an interpretation of the major logical, philosophical/theological, and poetic writings of Boethius, Abelard, and Alan of Lille. In this interdisciplinary study, Abelard and Alan of Lille are placed with Boethius as creatively reformulating the Boethian methods, vocabulary, and literary forms so influential in the 12th century. The author examines the theories of language of these thinkers and the ways in which those theories form part of their speculative projects and spiritual aspirations. What emerges are significant structural and narrative connections between the problems of how words illuminate things, how the mind comprehends God, and how the individual reaches beatitude. ... Read more

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Essays concerned with the transmission of Boethian philosophy and poetry also relate to medieval translation practice, the emergence of European literature, reception history, and manuscript studies.`Knowledge of the understanding of Boethius inthe middle ages is considerably enhanced.'REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES ... Read more

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This work provides a careful historical analysis of the methodsandcontents of the `De Trinitate' of Boethius and the `Expositio' ofAquinas. Itis also the first comprehensive philosophical andtheological analysis ofAquinas' `Expositio' to be based on the moderncritical edition of the Latintext and in the light of mid- andlate-20th-century advances in thomisticscholarship. In this study theauthor locates the reconstruction of Boethiusundertaken by Aquinas,and radically documents the dialectical themes of`agnosia' and`remotion' in this work. Such documentation aims to provide ahigherlevel of understanding of the structure of the `cu Expositio' than is possible with mid-20th-century approaches which have emphasized participationist, analogical and transcendental thematics. ... Read more

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This Article Is Contained In The October 1940 Issue Of Speculum, A Journal Of Mediaeval Studies. Contents Also Include: Nicholas Bozon By Sister M. Amelia; Attestation Of Charters In The Reign Of John By J. C. Russell; And More. ... Read more