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Book SynopsisChartres as an intellectual and cultural force in the Renaissance of the twelfth century has engaged the attention of critics and scholars from R. L. Poole through Gilson, Curtius, and Huizinga to, most recently, Peter Dronke. Its importance as a poetic tradition is now reviewed by Winthrop Wetherbee, first as it developed at Chartres, then as it i
Table of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*Acknowledgments, pg. ix*Preface, pg. xi*Chronological Table, pg. 1*Introduction, pg. 3*CHAPTER ONE. Twelfth-Century Platonism and the Pursuit of Wisdom, pg. 11*CHAPTER TWO. Philosophy and Experience: Boethius, Martianus Capella, and their Twelfth-Century Commentators, pg. 74*CHAPTER THREE. The Poetry of the Twelfth-Century Schools, pg. 126*CHAPTER FOUR. Form and Inspiration in the Poetry of Bemardus Silvestris, pg. 152*CHAPTER FIVE. Nature and Grace: The Allegories of Alain de Lille, pg. 187*CHAPTER SIX. The Poetry of the Schools and the Rise of Romance, pg. 220*CHAPTER SEVEN. Chartrian Allegory and the World, pg. 242*Appendix, pg. 267*Bibliography, pg. 273*Index, pg. 285
