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| Author(s): |
Rafael Bosch
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2021-06-30 |
| Examining board members: |
Néri de Barros Almeida;
Márcio Augusto Damin Custódio;
Carlile Lanzieri Júnior;
Igor Salomão Teixeira;
Leandro Duarte Rust
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| Advisor: | Néri de Barros Almeida |
| Abstract | |
This doctoral dissertation examines both the heresy accusations and the convictions that were produced in the school environment of the eleventh and twelfth centuries in the medieval West. Centering on the schoolmasters of this period, it analyzes a theme marginalized by historians who, by focusing their studies on the great heretical groups or the so-called "popular heresies", treated scholastic heresies as isolated cases. Going against this perspective, the present work intends to discuss whether these occurrences correspond to a wider phenomenon and could be related to converging contexts and aspects. For this purpose, the cases of Berengar of Tours (c. 999 - 1088), Roscelin of Compiègne (1050 - 1125), Peter Abelard (1079 - 1142) and Gilbert of Poitiers (1076 - 1154) were examined considering the similarities and differences among them, in order to understand how and why they were accused, prosecuted and - eventually - condemned. Therefore, the approach consisted of the study of three dimensions: 1) an epistemological one, namely, the consideration that what was at stake was not only the limits of the human intellect in apprehending data from the supernatural order, but also turning the "Truth revealed" into science by seeking to expose it as a set of processes that answered both to a logic and a comprehensible reason; 2) a socio-political one, after all, just as these schoolmasters could only build their careers because certain social, political and economic conditions allowed it, the same can be said of the accusations and convictions they endured; 3) and, finally, an ethical-moral one, since more than mere interpreters of the liberal arts and sacred authorities, these masters were expected to be examples of conduct (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 16/04026-2 - "Scholastic heresy": a phenomenon in the eleventh and twelfth centuries? |
| Grantee: | Rafael Bosch Batista |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |