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 Porrée.

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.