Der dritte Ort

Gelehrte Eremiten zwischen den Kulturen der Frömmigkeit und der Rationalität (11.–13. Jahrhundert)

Abstract

The so-called ‘new hermitism’ of the long 12th century exerted a great attraction on some visitors to the early scholastic schools. Distance from human settlements and radical asceticism were seen as a way of combining the new kind of rationality with practices of heightened religiosity. Forest and wasteland were seen as an attractive ‘third place’ apart from school and monastic life.