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Often appears with: teaching theology and secular arts · students flock to lectures · st. jerome · st. augustine · religious persecution and toleration · priesthood and religious office · monastic and ascetic life · ecclesiastical accusations · censorship and the press · books, libraries, and learning · athanasius · assemblies, councils, and senates
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Clerics urge Abelard to teach theology and the poor after his wound, but he finds the abbey of St. Denis worldly and scandalous; he moves to a hut to lecture, then faces accusations about teaching secular books and theology.
smite so lofty a head? Why then was I wedded Only to bring thee to woe? Receive now my sorrow, The price I so gladly pay." (Lucan, "Pharsalia," viii, 94.) With these words on her lips did she go forthwith to the altar, and lifted therefrom the veil, which had been blessed by the bishop, and before them all she took the vows of the religious life. For my part, scarcely had I recovered from my wound when clerics sough…
The passage profiles several major late antique and medieval Church figures and institutions—Jerome, Augustine, St Denis—linking their authority to scholarly and ecclesiastical life in Abelard’s France.
ST. JEROME The enormous scholarship of St. Jerome, born about 340 and dying September 30, 420, made him not only the foremost authority within the Church itself throughout the Middle Ages, but also one of the chief guides to secular scholarship. Abélard repeatedly quotes from him, particularly from his denunciation of the revival of Gnostic heresies by Jovinianus and from some of his voluminous epistles. He also ref…