medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Bill East wrote:
>
> I don't know about having Peter to tea and leaving Abelard and Bernard
> out in the cold. Certainly Peter wrote a wonderful letter to Heloise;
> he could be very charming, and clearly he fancied her something rotten.
> But he also had a rather nasty anti-Semitic streak, while A and B
> appear to have been remarkably enlightened on this point. I think I
> would have left Peter to drink his tea in his very adequately appointed
> monastery, and had both Abelard and Bernard for tea - but not on the
> same day.
>
I'm not convinced about Bernard being enlightened - he wrote (apropos of
Anacletus II, who was of Jewish descent) "it would be an insult to Christ if
the offspring of a Jew occupied the throne of Peter". Irony may not have
been his strong point either.
John Briggs
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