Letters of Peter of Celle, The responding a significant subset of the

a significant subset of the Athenian public was spectator and judge of contests where important social and ideological issues were played to it by its own members

to broad and ambitious statements on economic and social change in the

adding to the complexity of the region's cultural

the commodification of nature

Sitting at the intersection of reception studies

Letters of Peter of Celle, The responding a significant subset of thePeter of Celle, abbot of the great Benedictine houses of Montier la Celle (c. 1145 62) and Saint Remi, Reims (1162 81), and bishop of Chartres (1181 3), was a figure of considerable authority and influence in twelfth century France. Close to the royal family and to the court of Champagne, a friend of John of Salisbury and a supporter of Thomas Becket, known to Saint Bernard and to Peter the Venerable, his connections were impressive. In his letters,