Rethinking Abelard - A Collection of Critical Essays

Drawing on recent scholarship, with essays by a selection of international scholars, this volume throws new light on the literary persona of Peter Abelard (1079-1142), one of the most diversely gifted people of the Middle Ages.

About the author

Babette S. Hellemans, Ph.D. (2006), Utrecht University and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, is lecturer in Cultural and Medieval History at the University of Groningen. She has published several books and articles on cultural history, and medieval perspectives on time, memory and history. Hellemans is in the process of writing The Varieties of the Self: An Intellectual Biography of Peter Abelard.

Product details

• Assisted by: Babette S Hellemans (Editor), Babette S. Hellemans (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.04.2014
• EAN: 9789004262706
• ISBN: 978-90-04-26270-6
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 239 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 703 g
• Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectua
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works