Bynum, Caroline W., Harrell, Stevan, Richman, Paula

Gender and Religion: On the Complexity of Symbols

Bynum, Caroline W.

Harrell, Stevan

Richman, Paula

Religion & Spirituality

Beacon Pr

Introduction -- 
Monks and regular canons in the twelfth The state of the question -- 
A new approach -- 
Part 1: Regular canons and the concern for edification -- 
1. The sources -- 
Treatises of practical spiritual advice -- 
Two groups of sources -- 
Regular canons and the right to preach -- 
2. The individual treatises -- 
The compilation in MS Ottoboni Lat. 175 and the Regula Clericorum -- 
The Expositio in Regulam Beati Augustini, Odo of St. Vincent's letters, and Hugh of St. Victor's De Institutione Novitorum -- 
The commentary in MS Vienna 2207 and Philip of Harvengt's De Institutione Clericorum -- 
Richard of St. Victor's De Questionibus, the Bridlington Dialogue, and Adam of Dryburgh's Liber de Ordine -- 
3. The context -- 
The meaning of example -- 
The concern for edification in it context -- 
Conclusion -- 
Part 2: The Monastic focus on the individual as learner -- 
1. The sources -- 
Treatises of practical spiritual advice -- 
The Benediction Rule -- 
2. The early twelfth Individual treatises -- 
The eleventh-century John of Fruttuaria's De Vitae Ordine -- 
Rupert of Deutz's Super Quaedam Capitula Regulae, Abelard's Rule for Nuns, and Peter in the Deacon's Commentaries -- 
Bernard of Clairvaux's De Gradibus Humilitatis and De Praecepto et Dispensatione, and Aelred of Reievaulx's Speculum Caritatis -- 
3. The later twelfth Individual treatises -- 
Hildegard of Bingen's Explanatio Regulae, Joachim of Flora's Commentary, The De Novitiis Instruendis, the Commentary from Pontigny, and Adam of Perseigne's letters -- 
Peter of Celle's De Disciplina Claustrali, Arnulf of Boheries's Speculum Monachorum, and Stephen of Salley's Speculum Novitii -- 
Stephen of Paris's Expositio Super The exception that proves the rule -- 
4. Differences and similarities -- 
Psychological subtlety, community, and monastic attitudes toward example -- 
The idea of the individual as learner in its twelfth-century context -- 
Conclusion.

Docere Verbo Et Exemplo: An Aspect of Twelfth-Century Spirituality (Harvard Theological Studies ; No. 31)

Scholars Pr

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