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Author Colish, Marcia L.

Title Medieval foundations of the western intellectual tradition, 400-1400 / Marcia L. Colish
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 388 pages) : illustrations
Series Yale intellectual history of the West
Yale intellectual history of the West.
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 360-369) and index
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Subject Learning and scholarship -- History -- Medieval, 500-1500.
Comparative civilization.
HISTORY.
Comparative civilization
Intellectual life
Learning and scholarship -- Medieval
SUBJECT Europe -- Intellectual life -- To 1500
Europe -- Intellectual life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045726
Subject Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585357293
9780585357294