[Historia Calamitatum by Peter Abelard]@TWC D-Link bookHistoria Calamitatum CHAPTER XV 19/28
That he was something of a pedant is probable, but Abelard's picture of him is certainly very far from doing him justice. ALBERIC OF RHEIMS AND LOTULPHE THE LOMBARD Of these two not much is known beyond what Abelard himself tells us.
ALberic, indeed, won a considerable reputation, and was highly recommended to Pope Honorius II by St.Bernard.In 1139 Alberic seems to have become archbishop of Bourges, dying two years later. Lotulphe the Lombard is referred to by another authority as Leutaldus Novariensis. ST.
JEROME The enormous scholarship of St.Jerome, born about 340 and dying September 30, 420, made him not only the foremost authority within the Church itself throughout the Middle Ages, but also one of the chief guides to secular scholarship.
Abelard repeatedly quotes from him, particularly from his denunciation of the revival of Gnostic heresies by Jovinianus and from some of his voluminous epistles.
He also refers extensively to the charges brought against Jerome by reason of his teaching of women at Rome in the house of Marcella. One of his pupils, Paula, a wealthy widow, followed him on his journey through Palestine, and built three nunneries at Bethlehem, of which she remained the head up to the time of her death in 404. ST.
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