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Article: ABELARD: A MEDIEVAL LIFE.(Review)
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- Theological Studies
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- June 1, 1999
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ABELARD: A MEDIEVAL LIFE. By M. T. Clanchy. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1997. Pp. xvi + 416. $59.95.
Clanchy's intellectual biography of Peter Abelard "aims to bring harmony out of dissonance by focusing on the discordant and dissimilar elements in his life" (19). This is no small task, of course, given the fact that Abelard was one of the most controversial and dissonant personalities of the twelfth century, a man who seemed to exemplify the maxim found in the Carmina Burana, that "right and wrong go about cheek by jowl together." C. succeeds at meeting his own challenge, largely because he is willing to embrace the paradoxes in Abelard's life and thought and ...
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