Otloh+of+Saint-Emmeram

Bavarian monk who wrote on astronomy

1200s

in response to claims like that of Bernard of Clairvaux that scholasticism was too ambitious, defensively explains that it is 'Christian duty to, when one can, find back some of Adam's inheritance." by this he meant that his intellectual work was recovering some of the knowledge humans lost after The Fall of Adam and Eve.

shows the potentially subversive nature of scholasticism--powerful redefinitions posed a threat to the church. what Bernard of Clairvoix was reacting to