Alan of Lille
Organized by Bridget Balint, Indiana University-Bloomington

[Panel as described in Call for Papers]
The twelfth-century magister Alan of Lille left a remarkably diverse body of work, ranging from instructions for preachers to philosophical allegory. 
Across a variety of genres, Alan paid close attention to the relationship between the complexities of language and the complexities of the created world
of Nature and its supposed pinnacle, humanity. The papers in this session examine the ways in which Alan marshalled the arts of language to illuminate
human intellectual and moral potential in terms of humanity's place in the universal scheme of creation.

Leigh Harrison, Cornell University
The Ascent of Phronesis and the Philosophy of Rhetoric in the Anticlaudianus

Cynthia White, University of Arizona
            Omnis mundi creatura quasi liber: Alan of Lille on the Art of Preaching

Stephen D'Evelyn, University of Notre Dame
            Nature and Grace in the Poetry and Prose of Alan of Lille’s De Planctu Naturae

Milena Minkova, University of Kentucky
            A double metaphor in De planctu Naturae by Alan of Lille as a key to its interpretation?

Respondent: Jan Ziolkowski, Harvard University