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Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 400-1400 » (1st Edition)

Book cover image of Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 400-1400 by Marcia L. Colish

Authors: Marcia L. Colish
ISBN-13: 9780300078527, ISBN-10: 0300078528
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: February 1999
Edition: 1st Edition

Author Biography: Marcia L. Colish

Book Synopsis

An analysis of Western intellectual history between 400 and 1400 A.D.

Library Journal

This is the first book in what promises to be an exciting new series. It will seek to provide "a chronological account of the intellectual life and the development of ideas in Western Europe from the early medieval period to the present day." Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

	List of Illustrations
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
Pt. I	From Roman Christianity to the Latin Christian Culture of the Early Middle Ages
1	From Apology to the Constantinian Establishment	3
2	The Latin Church Fathers, I: Ambrose and Jerome	16
3	The Latin Church Fathers, II: Augustine and Gregory the Great	25
4	Hanging by a Thread: The Transmitters and Monasticism	42
5	Europe's New Schoolmasters: Franks, Celts, and Anglo-Saxons	56
6	The Carolingian Renaissance	66
Pt. II	Vernacular Culture
7	Celtic and Old French Literature	79
8	Varieties of Germanic Literature: Old Norse, Old High German, and Old English	89
Pt. III	Early Medieval Civilizations Compared
9	Imperial Culture: Byzantium	113
10	Peoples of the Book: Muslim and Jewish Thought	129
11	Western European Thought in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries	160
Pt. IV	Latin and Vernacular Literature
12	The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century	175
13	Courtly Love Literature	183
14	Goliardic Poetry, Fabliaux, Satire, and Drama	200
15	Later Medieval Literature	213
Pt. V	Mysticism, Devotion and Heresy
16	Cistercians and Victorines	225
17	Franciscans, Dominicans, and Later Medieval Mystics	234
18	Heresy in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries	245
19	The Christian Commonwealth Reconfigured: Wycliff and Huss	253
Pt. VI	High and Late Medieval Speculative Thought
20	Scholasticism and the Rise of Universities	265
21	The Twelfth Century: The Logica Modernorum and Systematic Theology	274
22	The Thirteenth Century: Modism and Terminism, Latin Averroism, Bonaventure, and Thomas Aquinas	289
23	Later Medieval Scholasticism: The Triumph of Terminism, Henry of Ghent, John Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham	302
Pt. VII	The Legacy of Scholasticism
24	The Natural Sciences: Reception and Criticism	319
25	Economic Theory: Poverty, the Just Price, and Usury	326
26	Political Theory: Regnum and Sacerdotum, Conciliarism, and Feudal Monarchy	335
	Conclusion	352
	Notes	360
	Bibliographical Note	364
	Index	370