...Caroline Walker Bynum Marie-Dominique Chenu, O.P. , Nature, Man, and Society in the Twelfth Century: Essays on New Theological Perspectives in the Latin West , with a preface by Étienne Gilson , selected, edited, and translated by Jerome Taylor and Lester K. Little , Medieval...

...—Augustine when I was seventeen, M. D. Chenu when I was twenty-four, Peter Brown and Mary Douglas a little later, Bernard of Clairvaux, Bernard Williams, and Ovid later still. And I have left the story since 1976 untold except insofar as my own academic work...

... and irreconcilably contradictory as we are. 15 Bynum has identified her model for this way of doing history as M.-D. Chenu, who challenged the ahistorical neo-Thomism then ascendent in Catholic theology by championing the pursuit of original meanings and underlying intellectual perspectives when studying medieval...