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Alan of Lille was a notable figure in the second half of the twelfth century as a theologian and as a poet and he has seemed as rich and individual a writer to modern scholars as he did to his own contemporaries. This study examines his work as a whole, in an attempt to set his well-known literary achievement in the context of his theological writings. He was in many ways a pioneer, an experimenter with several of the new genres of his day, an innovator both as a teacher and as an author. He was not an original thinker so much as an eclectic, drawing on a wide range of the sources available to his contemporaries. He shows us what might be done by a lively-minded scholar with the resources of the day, within the schools of late twelfth-century France, to bring theology alive and make it interesting and challenging to his readers.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Christianity

• Full title: Alan of Lille
• Subtitle: The Frontiers of Theology in the Later Twelfth Century
• Author: G. R. Evans
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 268
• EAN: 9780521094269
• ISBN: 0521094267
• ID: 02021128
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 350 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. January 2009

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