Cover -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Communities of Learning - Constant J. Mews -- Clare Monagle -- Section 1: Twelfth-century Learning -- 1. Carnal Compassion -- Peter Abelard's Conflicted Approach to Empathy -- Juanita Feros Ruys -- 2. From Wisdom to Science -- A Witness of the Theological Studies in Paris in the 1240s -- Riccardo Saccenti -- 3. Authority and Innovation in Bernard of Clairvaux's De gratia et libero arbitrio -- Marcia L. Colish -- 4. Words of Seduction -- A Letter from Hugh Metel to Bernard of Clairvaux -- Rina Lahav -- 5. The Emotional Landscape of Abelard's Planctus David super Saul et Ionatha -- Carol J. Williams -- Section 2: Sanctity and Material Culture -- 6. Dirty Laundry -- Thomas Becket's Hair Shirt and the Making of a Saint -- Karen Bollermann and Cary J. Nederman -- 7. Significatio and Senefiance, or Relics in Thomas Aquinas and Jean de Meun -- Earl Jeffrey Richards -- 8. The Cult of Thomas Aquinas's Relics at the Dawn of the Dominican Reform and the Great Western Schism -- Marika Räsänen -- Section 3: Theological Transmissions: Intellectual Culture after 1200 -- 9. Food for the Journey -- The Thirteenth-Century French Version of Guiard of Laon's Sermon on the Twelve Fruits of the Eucharist -- Janice Pinder -- 10. A Sense of Proportion -- Jacobus Extending Boethius around 1300 -- John N. Crossley -- 11. Utrum sapienti competat prolem habere? -- An Italian Debate -- Sylvain Piron -- 12. Attuning to the Cosmos -- The Ethical Man's Mission from Plato to Petrarch -- Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides -- Section 4: Gender, Power, and Virtue in Early Modernity -- 13. The Miroir des dames, the Chapelet des vertus, and Christine de Pizan's Sources* -- Karen Green -- 14. In Praise of Women -- Giovanni Sabadino degli Arienti's Gynevera de le clare donne -- Carolyn James -- 15. The Invention of the French Royal Mistress.

Tracy Adams -- Epilogue -- Peter Howard -- Index.