Preface.
Abbreviations and short titles.
PART THREE - THE STRUGGLES OF SCHOLARS IN THE SCHOOLS.
Introduction.
1 Rupert of Deutz: A Voice of the Past.
I The Two Worlds in Western Europe.
II Rupert's Life, Work, and World.
III Rupert's Conflicts with the Schools.
IV The Final Grandeur of Events.
V Ceremonies and Symbols versus Definitions and System.
2 Master Anselm of Laon: The Master of Future Masters.
I The Grounds of His Scholastic Fame.
II The Master, the City, and the School.
III The Development of His Teaching.
IV Master Anselm's Contribution to the Study of the Bible: The Origin of the Glossa Ordinaria.
V The Completion of the Glossa by Master Anselm's Successors.
3 Master Anselm and the Origins of Systematic Theology.
I The Scholastic Routine: From Glosses to sententiae.
II A Student's Collection of sententiae.
III Master Anselm's Questions and Answers.
IV The Bridge Between the Monastic Past. and the Scholastic Future.
V Summing Up.
4 Stumbling Towards System, c. 1100-1160.
I From sentences to System.
II Early Collections of sententiae.
III The Years Between 1130 and 1160.
5 Hugh of St. Victor: A Systematic Genius Before His Time.
I His Origin and Scholarly Beginnings.
II Towards a Systematic World-View.
III Master Hugh in His Classroom.
IV Hugh's Projected Lectures on God in Human History.
V Hugh's Ambiguous Position in Scholastic Development.
6 Scholars at the Frontiers of Knowledge: William of Conches and Thierry of Chartres.
I William of Conches.
II Thierry of Chartres.
III Conclusion.
7 Abelard at the Frontier of Logic and Theology.
I Introduction.
II Abelard's New Beginning.
III Logic and the Holy Trinity.
IV An Unexpected Source of Opposition (Walter of Mortagne).
V The Enlargement of Theology.
8 The Decisive Battles of the 1140s.
I The Road to Conflict.
II The First. Battle: St. Bernard and Abelard.
III The Background to the First. Battle: William of St. Thierry and St. Bernard.
IV The Second Battle: St. Bernard and Gilbert De La Porree.
V The Significance of 1148.
9 Peter Lombard: the Great Achiever.
I Introduction.
II The Continuing Problem of Organization.
III Peter Lombard Comes to Paris.
IV Peter Lombard's Patron: Odo (Or Otto), Bishop of Lucca.
V Peter Lombard's Career and Work in Paris, c. 1138-1160.
VI A Comparison Between His Work and That of Bishop Odo of Lucca.
VII Summing-Up.
PART FOUR - THE STRUGGLE OF THE SCHOLARS IN THE WORLD.
Introduction.
10 Master Vacarius: A Roman Lawyer in English Government, c. 1145 to c. 1200.
I The Legend and the Reality.
II Why, and When, Did Archbishop Theobald Bring Vacarius to England?
III The Liber pauperum.
IV Vacarius in the Archiepiscopal Province of York.
V Vacarius' Later Writings.
11 John of Salisbury: A Scholar at Large in Government.
I The End of His School-Years.
II His Transference to the World of Government.
12 The Two Peters of Blois in the Schools and in Government.
I Introduction.
II Their Relationship and Personalities.
III The Two Peters of Blois in the Schools, c. 1140-1165.
IV The Younger Peter's Search for Employment, 1165-1174.
V Stability then Uncertainty for the Younger Peter.
VI Peter and the Third Crusade.
VII Peter in the Service of Baldwin, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1184-1190.
VIII Peter and the Call for a Crusade.
IX Peter Writes a Last Letter to His Namesake.
X The Two Peters of Blois as Poets.
XI The Letters and the World of Peter's Old Age.
XII Epilogue: The Letter-Collection Marches On.
Index.
