Everard of Ypres
Everard of Ypres[1] was a scholastic philosopher of the middle of the twelfth century, a master of the University of Paris who became a Cistercian monk of the abbey of Moutier of Argonne. He had worked also for Cardinal Giacinto Bobone, the future Pope Innocent III[2].
He studied with Gilbert de la Porrée[3], first in Chartres and then in Paris[4], moving from four hearers to huge audiences in the hundreds[5]. He is an important commentator on the dispute between Gilbert and Bernard of Clairvaux, about which he later wrote[2]. The Dialogus Ratii et Everardi, a work dated to the 1190s[6], and variously considered either fictional or based on real conversations, contains an exposition of Gilbert's views[7]. The dialogue is presented between a letter to Pope Urban III and another letter, a literary structure that has been traced back to Sulpicius Severus[8].
The identification of the author of the Dialogus and the canonist author of Summula decretionum quaestionum, dated c.1180[9], was made by N. M. Häring; but this is not universally accepted[10]. The Summula is a digest of the Summa of Sicardus of Cremona[11].
References
- N. M. Haring, Everard of Ypres and his appraisal of the conflict between St. Bernard and Gilbert of Poitiers, Mediaeval Studies 17 (1955) 143-72
- Peter von Moos, Literatur- und bildungsgeschichtliche Aspekte der Dialogform im lateinischen Mittelalter. Der Dialogus Ratii des Eberhard von Ypern zwischen theologischer disputatio und Scholaren-Komödie, pp. 165–209 in G. Bernt, F. Rädle und G. Silagi (eds.), Tradition und Wertung. Festschrift für Franz Brunhölzl zum 65. Geburtstag, (1989)
Notes
- ^ Everardus, Evrard, Eberhard, Eberhardus, Evrardus Yprensis, Everhardus Yprensis.
- ^ a b Richard William Southern, Scholastic Humanism and the Unification of Europe (1995), pp. 225-230.
- ^ Giles Constable, The Reformation of the Twelfth Century (1996), p. 215.
- ^ Stephen C. Ferruolo, The Origins of the University: The Schools of Paris and Their Critics, 1100-1215 (1995), p. 24.
- ^ André Vauchez, Richard Barrie Dobson, Michael Lapidge, 'Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages (2001 translation), p. 288.
- ^ Krijna Nelly Ciggaar, Western Travellers to Constantinople: The West and Byzantium, 962-1204 (1996), p. 91.
- ^ John Marenbon, Gilbert of Poitiers and the Porretans on Mathematica in the Division of the Sciences, pp. 46-50. in Rainer Berndt (editor), "Scientia" und "Disciplina": Wissenstheorie und Wissenschaftspraxis im 12. und 13. Jahrhundert (2002)
- ^ von Moos; Jay Terry Lees, Anselm of Havelberg: Deeds Into Words in the Twelfth Century (1998), p. 231.
- ^ Constant van de Wiel, History of Canon Law (1991), p. 119.
- ^ Theresa Gross-Diaz, The Psalms Commentary of Gilbert of Poitiers: From Lectio Divina to the Lecture Room (1996), p. 17.
- ^ http://faculty.cua.edu/pennington/1140d-h.htm