As a theologian, he was responsible in his two masterpieces, the Summa theologiae and the Summa contra gentiles, for the classical systematization of Latin theology, and, as a poet, he wrote some of the most gravely beautiful eucharistic hymns in the church’s liturgy
Q. Where did Peter Abelard teach?
In 1102 Abelard set up his own school at Melun He quickly attracted students and, on the basis of his growing reputation, shifted his lectures to Corbeil, closer to Paris Aboutth forced Abelard to visit his home in Brittany He returned to Paris inht at the cathedral school
Table of Contents
- Q. Where did Peter Abelard teach?
- Q. What is one of the objections that Aquinas mentions against God’s existence?
- Q. What was the goal of Sic et Non?
- Q. Who is the author of Sic et Non?
- Q. What Italian author used the events of 1348 as a backdrop for his work The Decameron?
- Q. When was Sic et Non written?
- Q. Why is the Decameron banned?
- Q. What is the message of the Decameron?
- Q. Did Boccaccio witness the Black Death?
- Q. Who ruled Europe during the Black Death?
- Q. How long did the black death last?
Q. What is one of the objections that Aquinas mentions against God’s existence?
What is one of the objections that Aquinas mentions against God’s existence? The natural world could be accounted for in other ways without God You just studied 15 terms!
Q. What was the goal of Sic et Non?
We may say, then, that the Sic et Non has been written by Abailard as an exercise in “methodic doubt” in order to facilitate the search for truth in questions wherein religious faith may be aided by the uses of reason
Q. Who is the author of Sic et Non?
Peter Abelard
Q. What Italian author used the events of 1348 as a backdrop for his work The Decameron?
Boccaccio’s famous Decameron (written is set against the backdrop of the plague
Q. When was Sic et Non written?
1115
Q. Why is the Decameron banned?
Boccaccio’s most famous work, the Decameron, was condemned by the Catholic Church and included in the index of Prohibited Books (Index librorum prohibitorum) in 1559 on the grounds of its “intolerable errors” In the USA the work was banned until the 1930s Boccaccio was born in Florence or Certaldo, June or July 1313
Q. What is the message of the Decameron?
The most important message seems to be that love is a natural and powerful force that can’t be denied; it overwhelms reason and common sense; it transforms people In The Decameron, love is usually consummated in sex
Q. Did Boccaccio witness the Black Death?
Giovanni Boccaccio was a contemporary witness to the effects of the Black Death pandemic, the Yersinia pestis bacterial pandemic in Europe between the years causing 75 million to 200 million deaths across the continent alone
Q. Who ruled Europe during the Black Death?
Edward III
Q. How long did the black death last?
Black Death—The Invention of Quarantine From the Swiss manuscript the Toggenburg Bible, 1411 The plague never really went away, and when it returned 800 years later, it killed with reckless abandon The Black Death, which hit Europe in 1347, claimed an astonishing 200 million lives in just four years
