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Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00011-7 - Ethics and Enjoyment in Late Medieval Poetry: Love After Aristotle Jessica Rosenfeld Index More information Index Abelard, Peter, 6, 37 Ethica Vetus, 33, 180n82 Dialogue between a Philosopher, a Jew, and a Eudemian Ethics, 31 Christian, 10, 17, 33, 34–6, 79 happiness, 14 Ethics, 33 unified position, 179n51, 185n30 Ackrill, J. L., 175n29 in Deguileville, Pèlerinage de Vie Humaine, active life, 49, 53, 54, 56, 107 112, 125, 207n61 Adams, Don, 185n30 late antique reception, 26 Aelred of Rievaulx, 185n26, 188n65 Magna Moralia. See Aristotle, Pseudo- Aers, David, 210n1, 210n81, 211n11, 215n66 Metaphysics, 4, 119, 139, 144 Aesop, 109 “mounted Aristotle” topos, 11, 112–17, 121, Agamben, Giorgio, 183n2, 184n9 125, 204n24, 204n18 Akbari, Suzanne, 50, 183n2 Nicomachean Ethics, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10, 12, 83, Alain de Lille 119, 125, 139, 142, 147, 153, 156, 172n5 De Planctu Naturae, 65, 188n59 commentaries, 2–3, 4, 38, 54, 55, 83, Albertus Magnus See also Albertus Magnus; Aquinas, commentary on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Thomas; Buridan, Jean; Kilwardby, Ethics, 2, 28, 55–6, 80, 153, 185n32 Robert; Michael of Ephesus; Nicole Alexandre de Paris, 203n14 Oresme Allen, Judson, 4 contemplation, 18, 23, 26, 65 Ambrose, 28, 32 contemplative happiness, 46, 54, 79, 84, amor hereos. See lovesickness 107 Andreas Capellanus, 186n40 in Lacan, 162–6 animals and reason, 62–3, 98, 189n65, 200n89 love and creation, 70 Annas, Julia, 30, 177n19, 178n46, 179n64, on friendship, 140, 143, 153 179n63, 179n49 on perfect happiness, 31, 56 Apollo and Daphne, tale of on pleasure, 20, 78, 80, 84, 90, 98 in Froissart, 91, 95 on reason, 26, 63 Aquinas, Thomas, 7, 159, 165, 187n53, 191n3, on summum bonum, 33 196n59 reception, 28, 79 commentary on Aristotle’s Nicomachean translation of, 1–2, 14, 15, 43, 54, 57, 74 Ethics, 2, 58, 67, 70, 81, 98 Physics, 119 on pleasure, 80–1 Politics 3, 4, 5, 139, 141, 156, 172n7, 200n89, Summa Theologiae, 56, 58, 62, 81 200n89, 218n34 Arch, Jennifer, 211n8 on pleasure, 98 Aristophanes, 202n9 Posterior Analytics, 4 Aristotle Problemata. See Aristotle, Pseudo- Categories, 35 Rhetoric, 3, 4, 5, 107, 172n7 De Anima, 3, 139, 172n7, 188n65 Aristotle, Pseudo- De Caelo, 218n34 Economics 3, 172n7, 174n26 Economics. See Aristotle, Pseudo- Magna Moralia, 31 Ethica Nova, 54, 180n82 Problemata, 203n13 239 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00011-7 - Ethics and Enjoyment in Late Medieval Poetry: Love After Aristotle Jessica Rosenfeld Index More information 240 Index Armstrong, A. H., 178n41 Camargo, Martin, 137, 158, 211n9 Arnaut Daniel, 163 Carns, Paula Mae, 205n24 Asztalos, Monika, 181n97 Cathelineau, Pierre-Christophe, 216n7, Augustine, 6, 40, 79, 80 217n15 City of God, 15–16, 24, 31, 32 Celano, Anthony, 180n82, 185n29, 185n28, 185n27 Confessions, 21–2, 29, 184n13 Cento Novelle Antiche, 203n9 De Doctrina Christiana, 7, 17, 37 Cerquiglini-Toulet, Jacqueline, 75 on enjoyment, 14, 16–17, 37, 84, 119 Ceyx and Alcyone, tale of on knowledge, 27–8 in Chaucer, 103, 104, 105 Aureoli, Peter, 82, 194n33, 194n34 in Machaut, 88, 89, 102, 192n14 Averroists. See radical Aristotelians in Ovide Moralisé, 101–3 See also Ovid: Metamorphoses Badiou, Alain, 160–1, 164–5, 166, 217n24, Chadwick, Henry, 178n41 217n22 Charles V, 74 beatific vision, 37, 54, 78, 79, 84, 85 Chatton, Walter, 83 Bédier, Joseph, 204n18, 205n26 Chaucer, Geoffrey, 11, 76, 77, 88, 90, 96 Bernart de Ventadorn, 10, 41–3 An ABC, 125, 207n61 Bible and nominalism, 193n17 1 Corinthians 12:8, 27 Boece, 138, 143 Ecclesiasticus 3:22, 121 Boethianism, 139 Genesis, 60 Book of the Duchess, 11, 76, 88, 96–106, 153, 1 John 4:18, 79 201n95, 201n93 Romans 12:15, 151 Clerk’s Tale, 77 Blodgett, E. D., 203n12 Franklin’s Tale, 167–9 Boccaccio, Giovanni, 210n2 individual characters Boethius, 4 Alcyone, 13, 160, 166, 167, 170 Consolation of Philosophy, 17, 30, 60, 75, 120, Black Knight, 160 136, 137, 155, 158, 159, 188n65, 214n52 Criseyde, 13, 160 commentaries on, 12, 137, 139–45, Dorigen, 13, 167–9, 170 See also Trevet, Nicholas; William of Legend of Good Women, 147, 200n90 Aragon; William of Conches Merchant’s Tale, 150 in Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, 154, 157 Miller’s Tale, 110, 128 in Dante, Convivio, 147 Troilus and Criseyde, 8, 12, 73, 135–7, 139, 140, on beauty, 32 145, 149–59 on happiness, 19–20, 32 Wife of Bath’s Tale, 146, 148 translations of Aristotle, 183n1 Christine de Pizan Boethius of Dacia, 46, 56, 186n39, 189n71 L’Avision Christine, 109 Boland, Vivian, 187n50 Cicero, 4 Bonaventure De Divinatione, 202n9 Itinerarium Mentis ad Deum, 118 Hortensius, 28 Bossuat, Robert, 192n5 On Friendship, 147 Boulton, Maureen, 204n21 Republic, 203n9 Bowers, John, 207n64, 208n65 Topics, 35 Brams, Jozef, 172n4 Tusculan Disputations, 21, 31, 177n24 Brownlee, Kevin, 184n17, 190n79, 190n77, Colish, Marcia, 16, 37, 179n50, 181n93 196n60 compassion, 139, 143, 151, 155 Brunetto Latini, 192n3 condemnations of 1277, 56, 107, 186n40, Buridan, Jean, 4, 11, 87, 106 201n98, 202n1 commentary on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Conflict of Wit and Will, 122 Ethics, 5, 84–5, 120 contemplation, 2, 36, 47, 52, 53, 108, Burns, Jane, 160, 167 See also Aristotle: Nichomachean Ethics: Burrow, John, 207n63 contemplative happiness Butterfield, Ardis, 196n56, 201n93 excessive, 63 parodic, 92 Calin, William, 196n60, 197n67, 197n66 contemplative happiness, 81, 148 Callus, D. A., 171n1 contemplative life, 49, 54, 56, 107 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00011-7 - Ethics and Enjoyment in Late Medieval Poetry: Love After Aristotle Jessica Rosenfeld Index More information Index 241 Cook, Richard, 215n67 vocabulary of, 135–6, 182n99 Cooper, J. M., 179n51 envy, 41, 151 Copeland, Rita, 173n14, 212n24 Epicurus, 21, 34, 35 Corbellari, Alain, 203n16, 204n17 ethics Courcelle, Pierre, 212n12 motivation, 20, 78, 79, 81, 82, 100, 106 Courtenay, William, 6, 74, 77, 177n17, 182n98, narrative versus lyric mode, 58 194n33, 202n1 nominalist ethics, 174n20 courtly love, 8, 13, 39, 149, 160–5 poetry classified as, 1, 4 Crane, Susan, 169 psychoanalytic, 152, 161 eudaimonia, 7, 156 Dagenais, John, 4 Évrart de Conty, 198n76 Dante, 137, 154, 156, 159 Convivio, 12, 145–9, 159 Fasciculus Morum, 151 Monarchia, 146 felicity. See happiness Paradiso, 122, 158 Findley, Brooke Heidenreich, 198n81 Purgatorio, 146 Fink, Bruce, 217n15 Davis, Steven, 201n93 Fleming, John, 49, 184n9, 189n71 Davlin, Mary Clemente, 209n73, 210n82, fortune, 8, 75, 91, 105, 136, 140, 142, 156, 157, 210n81, 210n80 165, 170, 175n36, 188n62 de Looze, Laurence, 192n14, 201n104 and love, 43 Deguileville, Guillaume de, 133 in Roman de la Rose, 61 Pèlerinage de Vie Humaine, 11, 73, 111–12, Fradenburg, L. O. Aranye, 174n22, 174n22, 122–5, 127, 132 174n21, 193n18, 200n91, 201n101, second recension, 209n77 209n79, 215n63 Delbouille, Maurice, 203n16, 204n18, 204n17 free will, 60, 62 Denery II, Dallas G., 203n10 of God, 82, 117 Derrida, Jacques, 140, 216n8 Freud, Sigmund, 76, 161 Deschamps, Eustache, 77 friendship, 140 desire and happiness, 152–5 natural, 57 philosophy as friendship, 147 versus hope, 87 Froissart, Jean, 11, 75, 76, 88, 90–6, 97, 105 versus teleology, 57, 187n46 Espinette Amoureuse, 90, 95, 102 Desmond, Marilynn, 205n32 Paradis d’Amour, 93, 97, 199n84 Dinshaw, Carolyn, 215n57 Prison Amoureuse, 93–6, 97, 102, 198n74 Diogenes Laertius, 202n8 Fyler, John,, 76, 192n13, 192n12, 197n68 divisio scientiae, 173n14 Dod, Bernard G., 171n2, 171n1, 180n82, 183n1 Galloway, Andrew, 127 Donaldson, E. T., 215n67 Gaullier-Bougassas, Catherine, 203n14 Dragonetti, Roger, 190n76, 191n84 Gaunt, Simon, 160, 182n104, 183n107, 211n4 Dronke, Peter, 148, 211n8, 214n48 Gauthier, R. A., 180n82 Duns Scotus, John, 82, 107, 118, 194n34, 194n33 Gaylord, Alan, 211n5 Durandus of St. Pourçain, 194n33 Gerard of Berry glosses on Viaticum, 94 Ehrhart, Margaret, 192n10, 197n66 Gersh, Stephen, 177n15 enjoyment, 9, 14–44 Giles of Rome, 4, 107–8, 200n89, 202n4 as joy, 39, 175n32 Gilson, Étienne, 202n1 as knowledge, 40 Gleason, Mark, 144, 212n12 debates about, 3, 78, 150 Godefroy, Frédéric, 184n9 definitions, 6–7, 82 Godfrey of Fontaines, 107 intellect versus will, 25, 117 golden age, 67 intellectual faculty, 29, 119 Goldin, Frederick, 185n22, 185n21 jouissance, 7, 12–13, 165, 175n27 good, 65, 66, 81, 99, 159 jouissance féminine, 162, 164, 166 common, 3 knowledge of, 39 summum bonum, 18, 20 nobility of, 105 Gordon, Ida, 215n55 relationship to pleasure, 79, 82–3, 105 Gosling, J. C. B., 176n1 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-00011-7 - Ethics and Enjoyment in Late Medieval Poetry: Love After Aristotle Jessica Rosenfeld Index More information 242 Index Gower, John and eros, 115, 117, 127, 134 Confessio Amantis, 73, 112 versus will, 107–34 Grabmann, Martin, 171n1 intellectualism, 11, 29, 107, 108 Grady, Frank, 211n9, 212n20 critique, 107–34 Grennen, Joseph, 214n53 versus voluntarism, 117–22 Griselda, 130 Irwin, Terence, 172n6, 177n15 Grosseteste, Robert, 2, 54, 55, 57, 172n4 Isidore of Seville, 28 Guilhem IX of Aquitaine, 10, 18, 39–40 Guillaume de Lorris, 75. See also Roman Jacques de Vitry, 116, 205n26 de la Rose James of Venice, 172n7 Guldentops, Guy, 191n3 Jaufré Rudel, 10, 40–1, 162, 163 Gunn, Alan, 189n66 Jean de Meun, 45–6, 75, 76, 212n23. Guynn, Noah, 191n85 See also Roman de la Rose Livre de Confort de Philosophie, 141 habitus, 23, 142, 179n50 Jefferson, Bernard, 137 Hagen, Susan, 209n77 Jehan le Fèvre
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    Ball, Universe of Stone: Ch. 4: “Seek Not to Know High Things” 1 of 28 Seek Not to Know High Things faith and reason in the middle ages Philip Ball Western religious art is an accurate reflection of mankind’s changing attitude to the spiritual world. —Hans Jantzen, High Gothic (1984) One of the most singular phenomena of the literary history of the Middle Ages is the vigour of the intellec- tual commerce, and the rapidity with which books were spread from one end of Europe to the other. — Ernest Renan (c.1852) ambulatory may have been constructed in the Carolingian From: Philip Ball, Universe of Stone: A Biography of the abbey church of Saint-Denis around the mid-eighth century, Chartres Cathedral (HarperCollins, 2008). with the aim of easing the flow of pilgrims wishing to see The Crypt and Plan the shrine of St Denis. The visitors could enter on one side, walk around the sanctuary to view the reliquaries, and exit The eleventh-century crypt of Chartres, built by Bishop down the other passage. Fulbert’s architect Beranger, was nothing less than a second The Chartres legend has it that this kind of arrangement church situated beneath the main edifice. Beranger con- was necessary to accommodate the hordes of pilgrims who structed two long passageways that ran from the west end came to the cathedral to see the relics, especially the camisa, under the nave aisles, so that pilgrims could gain access to and who would have disrupted church services if they had to the relics without trailing through the church above.