Not to insist that this information authoritatively corrects any statements in
ths original exchange below... Paul Dutton discovered a manuscript work of
glosses on Plato that he has edited and published as a work of Bernard of
Chartres: *The Glosae super Platonem of Bernard of Chartres* (Toronto, 1991).
His identification of this work with one of those mentioned by John of
Salisbury was part of his doctoral thesis at the Pontifical Institute in
Toronto. The work contains 40 questions, which does agree with something
John of Salisbury says about one of Bernard's works, but to the best of my
recollection that's as far as the argument really goes.
I was present at the public defense of that thesis and acknowledge readily that
Paul's arguments for identifying it as Bernard's work did not meet with
unreserved acceptance by the examining board. Some, however, saw in it an
authoritative salvo against Southern's attack on the School of Chartres (which
was, of course, not ragingly popular with the Pontifical Institute to begin
with).
John Parsons
On 13 Jul 1999, Christopher Crockett wrote:
> Gaetano Maruca wrote:
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> >...Non possediamo opere di Bernardo di Chartres...
>
> That's because none of his works (if there ever were any) have survived,
> Gaetano.
>
> As Southern points out (if my ancient memory serves), John's
> _Metalogicon_ reference is almost all we know about him or his ideas.
>
> "The greatest Platonist of his time", or somesuchlike is how John styles him.
>
> Best from here,
>
> Christopher
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