10 A Sense of Proportion

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Introduction 9
4. Communities of Learning – Constant J. Mews 9
5. Section 1 Twelfth-century Learning
6. 1 Carnal Compassion Peter Abelard’s Conflicted Approach to Empathy 25
7. 2 From Wisdom to Science 43
8. 3 Authority and Innovation in Bernard of Clairvaux ’s De gratia et libero arbitrio 63
9. 4 Words of Seduction 83
10. 5 The Emotional Landscape of Abelard ’s Planctus David super Saul et Ionatha 99
11. Section 2 Sanctity and Material Culture
12. 6 Dirty Laundry Thomas Becket’s Hair Shirt and the Making of a Saint 131
13. 7 Significatio and Senefiance, or Relics in Thomas Aquinas and Jean de Meun 147
14. 8 The Cult of Thomas Aquinas’s Relics at the Dawn of the Dominican Reform and the Great Western Schism 171
15. Section 3 Theological Transmissions: Intellectual Culture after 1200
16. 9 Food for the Journey The Thirteenth-Century French Version of Guiard of Laon’s Sermon on the Twelve Fruits of the Eucharist 193
17. 10 A Sense of Proportion 213
18. 11 Utrum sapienti competat prolem habere? 227
19. 12 Attuning to the Cosmos 249
20. Section 4 Gender, Power, and Virtue in Early Modernity
21. 13 The Miroir des dames, the Chapelet des vertus, and Christine de Pizan’s Sources 279
22. 14 In Praise of Women Giovanni Sabadino degli Arienti’s Gynevera de le clare donne 297
23. 15 The Invention of the French Royal Mistress 317
24. Epilogue 337
25. Index 343