Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments ix
3. Contents xi
4. Abbreviations and a Note on Citations and Translations xiii
5. Introduction: Reading in Walter's Library 1
6. Chapter 1 Diversa sed non adversa: The Poetics of Exegesis 15
7. Chapter 2 Contradiction in the City John of Salisbury and the Practice of Dialectic 36
8. Chapter 3 "Negation Is Stronger" The Question of Abelard 63
9. Chapter 4 Sophisticated Teaching The Double-Talk of Andreas Capellanus 91
10. Chapter 5 Between One Thing and the Other The Libro de buen amor 116
11. Conclusion Teacher's Manual 145
12. Notes 153
13. Bibliography 183
14. Index 207