Aage Rydstrøm‑Poulsen is Ph.D. and Th.D. from the University of Copenhagen, former rector, head of department, associate professor, and head of the Institute of Culture, Language & History at the University of Greenland, Nuuk, Greenland.

• CONTENTSINDEXABBREVIATIONSINTRODUCTIONCHAPTER ONEAUGUSTINE – DOCTOR CARITATISCHAPTER TWOAT THE OPENING OF THE TWELFTH CENTURYCaritas in the Latin Commentaries to the Epistle to the Romans before Lanfranc of BecMarius VictorinusAmbrosiasterOrigines Latinus (Rufin of Aquleia)PelagiusCassiodorFlorus of Lyon (with an excursus about Beda Venerabilis, Isidore of Seville, and Gregory the Great)Rhabanus MaurusSedulius ScotusPs.-Haymo of Halberstadt (Haymor of Auxerre)Atto of VercelliBruno the CarthusianLanfranc of BecAnselm of CanterburyAnselm of LaonGlossa ordinaria William of Champeaux and the Sententie divine pagine VII. ConclusionCHAPTER THREETHE EARLY SCHOLASTIC AND THEIR SCHOOLSI. Peter Abelard and DisciplesII. Hugh of Saint-Victor and the Victorine EnvironmentIII. Richard of Saint-VictorIV. Gilbert Porreta and the Porretani V. ConclusionCHAPTER FOURTWO MONASTIC THEOLOGIANSI. William of Saint-ThierryII. Bernard of ClairvauxIII. ConclusionCHAPTER FIVEPETER LOMBARD AND THE SCHOOL OF PARISI. Magna Glossatura II. Caritas in Peter Lombard’s SermonsIII. Caritas in Peter Lombard’s Sententie in IV libris distinctae IV. The Impact of Peter Lombard’s Theory in Dist. I,17V. Critics of Peter Lombard’s Theory in Dist. I,17VI. ConclusionGENERAL CONCLUSIONBIBLIOGRAPHIESI. SOURCESII. SECONDARY LITERATUREONLINE SUMMARY