ABSTRACT
My concern in this paper is not with works of logic associated with Peter Abelard but with writings of a theological kind containing material which is similar to that also found in Abelard's own writings. 1 To these works of theology, largely collections of sentences but also including some works of Biblical commentary, I gave attention in a book which I published in 1969 under the title The School of Peter Abelard and with the sub-title The Influence of Abelard's Thought in the Early Scholastic Period, 2 After the passage of more than twenty years I welcome Professor Courtenay's mandatum to me to revisit what I called, following a well-established convention, the school. Whether or not this school looks any different now than it did two decades ago is one legitimate concern of this colloquium which seeks to raise new questions and to explore different possibilities than I have previously done. When John of Salisbury, as he tells us in his Metalogicon, made a return visit to the Mont Sainte-Genevieve after an absence of twelve years to see again the contem-poraries and pupils of Abelard, he was disappointed to find that they had not progressed one bit; John's enquiries revealed nothing that had not been known earlier. 3 Perhaps not in the case of John and the logicians from 1136 to 1148, but my hope is that a fresh return visit to Abelard's followers in theology will reveal some fresh considerations.
