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

1. ↑ Everardus, Evrard, Eberhard, Eberhardus, Evrardus Yprensis, Everhardus Yprensis.
2. 1 2 Richard William Southern, Scholastic Humanism and the Unification of Europe (1995), pp. 225-230.
3. ↑ Giles Constable, The Reformation of the Twelfth Century (1996), p. 215.
4. ↑ Stephen C. Ferruolo, The Origins of the University: The Schools of Paris and Their Critics, 1100-1215 (1995), p. 24.
5. ↑ André Vauchez, Richard Barrie Dobson, Michael Lapidge, 'Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages (2001 translation), p. 288.
6. ↑ Krijna Nelly Ciggaar, Western Travellers to Constantinople: The West and Byzantium, 962-1204 (1996), p. 91.
7. ↑ 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)
8. ↑ von Moos; Jay Terry Lees, Anselm of Havelberg: Deeds Into Words in the Twelfth Century (1998), p. 231.
9. ↑ Constant van de Wiel, History of Canon Law (1991), p. 119.
10. ↑ Theresa Gross-Diaz, The Psalms Commentary of Gilbert of Poitiers: From Lectio Divina to the Lecture Room (1996), p. 17.
11. ↑ http://faculty.cua.edu/pennington/1140d-h.htm