Bouchard's interdisciplinary approach must not only be applauded but imitated.... Bouchard reminds us that medieval thinkers were brilliant minds that were attached to bodies, and that means they were grounded in the culture of the Middle Ages. It might be neater to consider the more pristine world of ideas, but we must never forget that those ideas were discovered and debated in cathedral or university classrooms strewn with straw upon which embodied students sat. The master and the student alike were swayed by cultural elements that were not so esoteric, as much as they persuaded their contemporaries. That relationship should always seep into our interpretation of medieval culture.
- James Ginther, St. Louis University (The Medieval Review) Professor Bouchard has provided a lively and competent study of an important aspect of medieval thought: the tension of opposites that so often dominated that difficult abstraction, 'the medieval mind'. Her interest is to introduce the reader to how writers of the twelfth century, and specifically in France, saw and interpreted the reality they experienced, but Bouchard has gone beyond this to provide an excellent introduction, by using case analysis, to the medieval mind in general.... In all, this is an excellent book. All interested in medieval studies, the interaction of religious thinkers with the questions and issues of their day, as well as the methodology of a different time, and not least our contemporary students who are so ingrained with the modern disjunctive mode of thinking would do well to ponder this clear exposition of the conjunctive frame whose complexity Bouchard so aptly reveals.
- Thomas E. Morrissey, SUNY Fredonia (Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture)
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