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David Luscombe: Publications David Luscombe: Publications 1963 Review: David Knowles, Great Historical Enterprises. Problems in Monastic History (London, 1963), in The Cambridge Review, 85/2064, November 30, 169-71 Review: M. Wilks, The Problem of Sovereignty in the Later Middle Ages (Cambridge, 1963), in Theology 66, 341 1964 Review: Jean Décarreaux, Monks and Civilisation (London, 1964), in Theology 67, 464-6 1965 “Towards a new edition of Peter Abelard's Ethica or Scito te ipsum: an introduction to the manuscripts,” Vivarium 3, 115-27 Review: Donald Nicholl, Thurstan, Archbishop of York (1114-1140) (York, 1964), in New Blackfriars 46, 257-8 Review: G. Constable, Monastic Tithes from their Origins to the Twelfth Century (London, 1964), in New Blackfriars 46, 486 Review: Studies in Church History, 1, eds. C.W. Dugmore and C. Duggan (London, 1964) and The English Church and the Papacy in the Middle Ages, ed. C.H. Lawrence (London, 1965), in New Blackfriars 47, 48 1966 “Berengar, Defender of Peter Abelard,” Recherches de théologie ancienne et médiévale 33, 319-37 “Anselm of Laon,” Colliers Encyclopedia, 1 “Nature in the Thought of Peter Abelard,” La Filosofia della Natura nel Medioevo. Atti del Terzo Congresso Internazionale di Filosofia Medioevale (Milan), 314-19 Review: Dom Adrian Morey and C.N.L. Brooke, Gilbert Foliot and his Letters (Cambridge, 1965), in New Blackfriars 47, 612 Review: B. Pullan, Sources for the History of Medieval Europe from the Mid-Eighth to the Mid-Thirteenth Century (Oxford, 1966), in The Cambridge Review, 29 October 1966, 73 1967 “Bernard of Chartres,” in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. P. Edwards (New York), 1: 305 “Bernard of Tours, ” ibid. 1: 306 “Chartres, the School of,” ibid. 2: 83 “Gilbert of Poitiers,” ibid. 3: 329-31 “Saint Victor, the School of,” ibid. 7: 277-8 “Theoderic of Chartres,” ibid. 8: 98-9 “William of Champeaux,” ibid. 8: 303-4 “William of Conches,” ibid. 8: 304-5 1968 “The Authorship of the Ysagoge in theologiam,” Archives d'histoire doctrinale et littéraire du moyen âge 35, 7-16 Review article: C.H. Talbot, Medicine in Medieval England (London, 1967), in History of Science 7, 129-33 Review: Simone Viarre, La Survie d’Ovide dans la littérature des XIIe et XIIIe siècles (Poitiers, 1966), in EHR 83, 584-5 Review: P. O. Kristeller, Renaissance Philosophy and the Medieval Tradition (Latrobe, 1966), in The Clergy Review, June 1968, 486-7 Review: Jonathan Riley-Smith, The Knights of St John in Jerusalem and Cyprus, c. 1050-1310 (London, 1967), in New Blackfriars 50, 52-3 Review: A. Victor Murray, Abelard and St Bernard. A Study in Twelfth Century ‘Modernism’ (Manchester, 1967), in The Downside Review 86, 189-90. 1969 The School of Peter Abelard: The Influence of Abelard's Thought in the Early Scholastic Period. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought 2: 14 (Cambridge), xiii + 360 pp. Reprinted 1970. Digital reprint 2008. 1970 Review: J. Leclercq, F. Vandenbroucke and L. Bouyer, A History of Christian Spirituality, 2 (London, 1968); The Cambridge History of the Bible, 2: The West from the Fathers to the Reformation, ed. G.W.H. Lampe (Cambridge, 1969), in New Blackfriars 51, 101-2 Review: A. Squire, Aelred of Rievaulx. A Study (London, 1969), in The Clergy Review, August 1970, 657-8 Review: A. Hallier, The Monastic Theology of Aelred of Rievaulx: An Experiential Theology (Shannon, 1969), in Theology 73, 468-9 1971 Peter Abelard's Ethics. An Edition with Introduction, Translation and Notes. OMT (Oxford), lxii + 144 pp. Reprinted 1979 and 1998 Review: Bernardi di Chiaravelle: Grazia e Libero Arbitrio, and Bernardi di Chiaravalle; Le Lettere contro Pietro Abelardo, ed. Albino Babolin (Padua, 1968-9), in Medium Ævum 40, 66-8 Review: R. E. Weingart, The Logic of Divine Love. A Critical Analysis of the Soteriology of Peter Abelard (Oxford, 1970), in The Downside Review 88, 96-7 Review: C. Brooke, The Twelfth Century Renaissance (London, 1969); L. Grane, Peter Abelard. Philosophy and Christianity in the Middle Ages (London, 1970), in History 56, 83-4 Review Article: “R. W. Southern on the Middle Ages,” in New Blackfriars 52, 280-3 1972 “Peter Abelard: Some Recent Interpretations,” Journal of Religious History 7, 69-75 Review: John W. Baldwin, Masters, Princes and Merchants: The Social Views of Peter the Chanter and his Circle (Princeton, 1970), in Medium Ævum 41, 56-9 Review: Petri Venerabilis Contra Petrobrusianos, ed. J. Fearns. CCCM, 10 (Turnhout, 1968); Reimbaldi Leodiensis Opera Omnia, ed. C. de Clercq. CCCM, 4 (Turnhout, 1966), in Medium Ævum 41, 141-3 1973 “Peter Abelard,” The Listener 90 (23 August 1973), pp. 246-8. Review: Colin Morris, The Discovery of the Individual, 1050-1200 (London, 1972), in JTS 24, 285-6 Review: W. Simonis, Trinität und Vernunft. Untersuchungen zur Möglichkeit einer rationalen Trinitätslehre bei Anselm, Abaelard, den Viktorinen, A. Günther und J. Frohschammer (Frankfurt am Main, 1972), in JEH 24, 435-6. 1974 “Jean de Salisbury,” Dictionnaire de spiritualité, ascétique et mystique 8 (Paris), cols. 716-21. “The Ethics of Abelard: Some Further Considerations,” in Peter Abelard, ed. E.M. Buytaert, Mediaevalia Lovaniensia 1: 2 (Leuven), pp. 65-84. “Abelard, Peter,” Encyclopedia Britannica (15th edn.), 1: 10-11. Review: R. Allen Brown, The Origins of Modern Europe (London, 1972), in History 59, 250 Review: Beryl Smalley, The Becket Conflict and the Schools. A Study of Intellectuals in Politics (Oxford, 1973), in The Downside Review, October, 280-1 1975 “Pierre Abélard et le monachisme,” in Pierre Abélard. Pierre le Vénérable. Les Courants philosophiques, littéraires et artistiques en occident au milieu du XIIe siècle. Abbaye de Cluny, 2 au 9 juillet, 1972. Colloques internationaux du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, no. 546 (Paris), pp. 271-8. Review: Brian Stock, Myth and Science in the Twelfth Century: A Study of Bernard Silvester (Oxford, 1973); Jasper Hopkins, A Companion to the Study of St Anselm (Oxford, 1973), in History 60, 284-5 1976 Conosci te stesso o Etica di Pietro Abelardo. Introduzione, traduzione e note di Mario dal Pra ... testo latino nell' edizione critica di D.E. Luscombe. Classici della filosofia, II. La Nuova Italia Editrice (Florence). Church and Government in the Middle Ages: Essays Presented to C.R. Cheney on his 70th Birthday, eds. C.N.L. Brooke, D.E. Luscombe, G.H. Martin, and Dorothy Owen (Cambridge), xvi + 312 pp. Reprinted with corrections 1978. Digital reprint 2008. “The Lex divinitatis in the Bull Unam Sanctam of Pope Boniface VIII,” ibid., pp. 205- 21. Review: Gerhoch of Reichersberg: Letter to Pope Hadrian about the Novelties of the Day, ed. Nikolaus M. Häring. Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. Studies and Texts, 24 (Toronto, 1974), in Medium Ævum 45, 112-13 Review: Peter von Moos, Mittelalterforschung und Ideologiekritik: Der Gelehrtenstreit um Héloise, in Medium Ævum 45, 309-10 Review: Beryl Smalley, Historians in the Middle Ages (London, 1974), in History 61, 249 Review: The Mind of Eriugena. Papers of a Colloquium, Dublin, 14-15 July 1970, eds. John J. O’Meara and Ludwig Bieler (Dublin, 1973), in JEH 27, 310-11. 1977 Review: Peter Abelard’s Hymnarius Paraclitensis, ed. Joseph Szövérffy, 2 vols. Medieval Classics: Texts and Studies 2-3 (Albany, NY, 1975), in JTS 28, 577 Review: J.J.C. Alexander and M.T. Gibson, eds., Medieval Learning and Literature: Essays Presented to Richard William Hunt (Oxford, 1976) in EHR 92, 883-4 Review: Peter the Venerable; Selected Letters, ed. Janet Martin in collaboration with Giles Constable (Toronto, 1974), in Medium Ævum 46, 133-4 Review: James Bowen, A History of Western Education, II: Civilization of Europe Sixth to Sixteenth Century (London, 1975), in JEH 28, 437-8 Review: Jonathan Riley-Smith, What were the Crusades? (London, 1977), in The Tablet, 17 September 1977, 889 1978 “Some examples of the use made of the works of the pseudo-Dionysius by university teachers in the later Middle Ages,” in The Universities in the Late Middle Ages, eds. J. IJsewijn and J. Paquet. Mediaevalia Lovaniensia 1: 6 (Leuven), pp. 228-41. “Etienne Gilson, 1884-1978,” The Tablet, 14 October 1978, 986. Review: E. Le Roy Ladurie, Montaillou. Cathars and Catholics in a French Village, 1292-1324 (London, 1978), in The Listener, 6 July 1978, 26-7 Review: The Letters and Poems of Fulbert of Chartres, ed. Frederick Behrends (Oxford, 1976), in EHR 93, 156-7 Review: Peter Dronke, Abelard and Heloise in Medieval Testimonies (Glasgow, 1976), in Medium Ævum 47, 117-18 Review: William C. Jordan, Bruce McNab, and Teofilo F. Ruiz, Order and Innovation in the Middle Ages: Essays in Honor of Joseph R. Strayer (Princeton, 1976), in History 63, 107 Review: Joachim of Fiore in Christian Thought. Essays on the Influence of the Calabrian Prophet, ed. Delno C. West (New York, 1975), in JEH 29, 104-5 Review: Richard Campbell, From Belief to Understanding: A Study of Anselm’s Proslogion Argument on the Existence of God (Canberra, 1976), in JEH 29, 504-5 1979 “Conceptions of Hierarchy before the Thirteenth Century,” in Soziale Ordnungen im Selbstverständnis des Mittelalters, ed. A. Zimmermann. Miscellanea Mediaevalia 12 (Berlin), 1: 1-19. Peter Abelard. The Historical Association. General Series 95. 40 pp. Reprinted 1980. Published on-line 2014 in the series “Classic HA Publications”. Review: Denys Hay, Annalists and Historians: Western Historiography from the VIIIth to the XVIIIth Centuries (London, 1977), in History 64, 63-4 Review: G. R. Evans, Anselm and Talking about God (Oxford, 1978), in The Downside Review 97, 153-4 1980 Petrus Abaelardus (1079-1142). Person, Werk und Wirkung, ed. R. Thomas in association with J. Jolivet, D.E. Luscombe and L.M. de Rijk. Trierer Theologische Studien 38 (Trier). 339 pp. “The Letters of Heloise and Abelard since Cluny, 1972,” ibid., pp.
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