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Literary Works (Hardcover, New)
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Literary Works (Hardcover, New)
Series: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
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A product of the cathedral schools that played a foundational role
in the so-called Twelfth-Century Renaissance, Alan of Lille was
renowned for the vast learning which earned him the title of Doctor
Universalis. His writings include many significant contributions to
the development of systematic theology, but he was also the most
important Latin poet of his time, the great age of Medieval Latin
poetry. The works included in this volume aim to give imaginative
expression to the main tenets of Alan's theology, but the forms in
which his vision is embodied are strikingly original and informed
by a rich awareness of poetic tradition. The "Sermon on the
Intelligible Sphere" translates Platonist cosmology into the terms
of a visionary psychology. In the Boethian dialogue of the De
planctu Naturae the goddess Nature inveighs against sodomy and
"unnatural" behavior generally. The Anticlaudianus, viewed as
virtually a classic in its own day, is at once a summa of the
scholastic achievement of the Twelfth-Century schools and an
allegory of spiritual pilgrimage that anticipates the Divine
Comedy.
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