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> I like your list but I would take out Boethius and put in Abelard. I
> agree
> that B had a huge influence, but I fail to see him as a major
> religious
> force. Abelard on the other hand opened up whole new vistas of
> religious
> thought, the precursor to the scholastics and thus a natural ending
> point
> (with Bernard) for the course.
That is a very interesting point. Actually I have already published
(and lectured) a good deal on Abelard, but never on Boethius, which was
one factor in my thinking. And the opuscula of Boethius are of
tremendous importance to the growth of scholasticism, not least through
the commentary of Gilbert de la Porrée and the controversies it
aroused. But certainly Abelard must get some mention.
Oriens.
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