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The decorated initial S of Berengar's Apologeticus in a manuscript of Шаблон:Circa

Berengar of Poitiers was a younger contemporary and zealous adherent of the philosopher Peter Abelard (d. 1142). Practically nothing is known of his life except what may be learned from his few brief writings.[1] His byname, Pictauensis in Latin, indicates that he had some association with Poitou; probably he was born there.Шаблон:Sfn He was a member of the secular clergy.Шаблон:Sfn

Berengar's writings are found in five manuscripts.Шаблон:Sfn All of them were written after Abelard's condemnation at the Council of Sens in May 1140 or 1141. Three of them are extant: the Apologeticus, a defence of Abelard against Bernard of Clairvaux; the Epistola contra Carthusienses, a criticism of Abelard's Carthusian critics; and the Epistola ad episcopum Mimatensem, a letter requesting protection from the bishop of Mende.[1] He wrote at least one lost work, De incarnatione Christi, a treatise against a heretical canon of Marseille named Benedict.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The last is written from Cévennes, where he had sought an asylum after stirring up so much hostility that he feared for his safety. Nothing is known of his later life.[1]

In his Apologeticus, probably written before Abelard's death on 21 April 1142,Шаблон:Sfn Berengar satirizes Bernard and the process against Abelard.Шаблон:Sfn He admits that Abelard has erred at points, but argues that Bernard is a hypocrite with no right to bring charges.Шаблон:Sfn Bernard has accused Abelard of contradicting the Church Fathers, but Bernard himself in his commentary on the Song of Songs has violated the rules of Horace's Ars poetica. If Bernard can be novel, why not Abelard?Шаблон:Sfn More substantially, Berengar also accuses Bernard of espousing the heretical Platonic view that souls originate in heaven and transmigrate to Earth. If Abelard had written something similar, Berengar avers, Bernard would certainly have put it on his list of errors.Шаблон:Sfn

In his letter to the Carthusians, Berengar berates the monks for hypocrisy in scriptural language, asking, "What good does it do, brethren, to go into the desert, and in the desert to have an Egyptian heart? What good does it do to avoid the frogs of Egypt, yet yourselves croak with obscene slanders?"Шаблон:Sfn

Berengar's letter to the bishop, William III, was composed towards 1150.Шаблон:Sfn In it, he retracts his criticism of Bernard, admitting that he would not stand by all that he had written since he was older and wiser.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn He nevertheless defends his writing by appealing to the example of Colotes, who criticized Plato, and of Aristotle:Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Verse translation

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