From Notre Dame to Cluny, via a Beehive Hut
John Bossy: Abelard’s Final Fling, 2 July 1998
Abelard: A Medieval Life
by M.T. Clanchy.
Blackwell, 416 pp., £45, January 1997,0 631 20502 0 Show More
by M.T. Clanchy.
Blackwell, 416 pp., £45, January 1997,
“... and castrated in consequence: a romantic figure, like say Tchaikovsky, in an age of epics. Michael Clanchy’s life of him is too serious to count as romance, and too witty to be epic. He writes extremely well, and matches with a wide and happy learning, which runs from Socrates to Eliot and from Cole Porter to Eco, his intense engagement with the mind and ... ”
