This study analyses the complex role played by the concept of a âveiled truthâ (integumentum) in the intellectual culture of the Twelfth Century.
Eight chapters examine the concept in theological texts and milieux (e.g. Peter Abelard, Bernard of Clairvaux, Gilbert of Poitiers); in natural philosophy (William of Conches); in literary commentaries and literary theory; in literature (Bernard Silvester, Alan of Lille); and in methodological discussions of the Artes sermocinales and language (John of Salisbury).
Key questions implied (and discussed) include: 12th-century reflections on the limits of human rationality; the impact of 12th-century methodological discussions for the evolution of Scholasticism; the nature and scope of medieval literary theory and hermeneutics; the importance of an interdisciplinary intellectual history for the understanding of medieval thought.
Frank Bezner, Ph.D. (2000) in Medieval and Neolatin, University of Tübingen, is a Research Fellow at the University of Tübingen. He has published on various aspects of 12th-century intellectual history and currently is preparing a monograph on Early Modern conceptions of the past.
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Einleitung. Der Traum des Fulgentius oder die Persistenz des Hintersinns . . 1
Erster Teil: Theologische Perspektiven
Kapitel I:. Peter Abailard oder die Dialektik der Dunkelheit . . 99
Kapitel II:. Rem, ut est, sermo non explicat. Integumentale Hermeneutik und Trinitätstheologie. . . 183
Zweiter Teil: Integumentale Hermeneutik in der Naturphilosophie
Kapitel III:. Eine Theorie des integumentumâWilhelm von Conches und Macrobiusâ Kommentar zum Somnium Scipionis . . 263
Kapitel IV:. Physica est aperta. Integumenta in Wilhelms Naturphilosophie . . 299
Dritter Teil: Literarische Perspektiven
Kapitel V:. Poesis id est ⦠âLiterarische Hermeneutik im 12. Jahrhundert? . . 341
Kapitel VI:. Naturphilosophie in integumentaler FormâDie Cosmographia des Bernardus Silvestris . . 415
Kapitel VII:. Theologische Episteme im allegorischen Gewande. Die integumenta des Alanus von Lille . . 471
Vierter Teil: Das Integumentum und die Sprache der Wissenschaften
Kapitel VIII:. Aliud dicit, aliud sentit? Das integumentum und die Sprache der Wissenschaften. . . 557
SchluÃ. Vom Traum des Fulgentius zur Wut des Giraldus? Eine Schlussbetrachtung mit Ausblicken . . 631
Bibliographie. . . 653
Index . . 687
All those interested in intellectual history, the philosophical, theological, literary culture of the 12th century, Medieval Latin, the history of allegory and medieval literary theory, as well as literary theorists.