| Description |
xii, 388 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Yale intellectual history of the West. |
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Yale intellectual history of the West.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [360]-369) and index. |
| Contents |
Part 1. From Roman Christianity to the Latin Christian culture of the early Middle Ages. From apology to the Constantinian establishment ; The Latin church fathers, I: Ambrose and Jerome ; The Latin church fathers, II: Augustine and Gregory the Great ; Hanging by a thread: the transmitters and Monasticism ; Europe's new schoolmasters: Franks, Celts, and Anglo-Saxons ; The Carolingian Renaissance -- Part 2. Vernacular culture. Celtic and old French literature ; Varieties of Germanic literature: Old Norse, Old High German, and Old English -- Part 3. Early medieval civilizations compared. Imperial culture: Byzantium ; Peoples of the book: Muslim and Jewish thought ; Western European thought in the tenth and eleventh centuries -- Part 4. Latin and vernacular literature. The Renaissance of the twelfth century ; Courtly love literature ; Goliardic poetry, fabliaux, satire, and drama ; Later medieval literature -- Part 5. Mysticism, devotion, and heresy. Cistercians and Victorines ; Franciscans, Dominicans, and later medieval mystics ; Heresy in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries ; The Christian commonwealth reconfigured: Wycliff and Huss -- Part 6. High and late medieval speculative thought. Scholasticism and the rise of universities ; The twelfth century: the Logica Modernorum and systematic theology ; The thirteenth century: modism and terminism, Latin Averroism, Bonaventure, and Thomas Aquinas ; Later medieval scholasticism: the triumph of terminism, Henry of Ghent, John Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham -- Part 7. The legacy of scholasticism. The natural sciences: reception and criticism ; Economic theory: poverty, the just price, and usury ; Political theory: Regnum and Sacerdotum, conciliarism, feudal monarchy. |
| Subject |
Europe -- Intellectual life -- To 1500.
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Learning and scholarship -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500.
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Comparative civilization.
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| ISBN |
0300071426 alkaline paper |
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9780300071429 alkaline paper |
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