Latin Reading: About that Notorious Abelard

DE MAGISTRO QUI LEGIT IN AERE ET IN AQUA

I just found this passage the other day in Charles H. Beeson’s A Primer of Medieval Latin, p.47-48 (in the Public Domain, c. 1925). Beeson excerpted it from the sermons of James of Vitry, cardinal bishop of Tusculum (died 1240). (It is just the kind of real, vivid Ecclesiastical Latin that students can handle after reaching about Lectio 50 in Fr. Most’s Latin by the Natural Method, Vol. I.)

Attached is a PDF of the reading about Peter Abelard and the King of France, with two versions: one using my case-color system, and one all in black and white.

I hope it makes you chuckle. This reading proves that Latin can be a lot of fun!