From Notre Dame to Cluny, via a Beehive Hut
John Bossy: Abelard’s Final Fling, 2 July 1998
Abelard: A Medieval Life
by M.T. Clanchy.
Blackwell, 416 pp., £45, January 1997,0 631 20502 0 Show More
by M.T. Clanchy.
Blackwell, 416 pp., £45, January 1997,
“... to cause trouble in the school of Laon, Abelard comes back to Paris, perhaps under the auspices of King Louis’s chancellor Stephen de Garlande, to set up his own school in the cloister of Notre Dame. He becomes famous as the wizard of logic, launches the logical rage that was to govern or misgovern the next four centuries ... ”