Medieval Foundations of the Western

An analysis of the course of Western intellectual history between A.D. 400 and 1400, this book is divided into two parts: the first surveys the comparative modes of thought and varying success of Byzantine, Latin-Christian and Muslim cultures, and the second takes readers from the 11th century revival of learning to the high Middle Ages and beyond, the period in which the vibrancy of Western intellectual culture enabled it to stamp its imprint well beyond the frontiers of Christendom. 24 illustrations.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
From Roman Christianity to the Latin Christian Culture of the Early Middle Ages
From Apology to the Constantinian Establishment	p. 3
The Latin Church Fathers, I: Ambrose and Jerome	p. 16
The Latin Church Fathers, II: Augustine and Gregory the Great	p. 25
Hanging by a Thread: The Transmitters and Monasticism	p. 42
Europe's New Schoolmasters: Franks, Celts, and Anglo-Saxons	p. 56
The Carolingian Renaissance	p. 66
Vernacular Culture
Celtic and Old French Literature	p. 79
Varieties of Germanic Literature: Old Norse, Old High German, and Old English	p. 89
Early Medieval Civilizations Compared
Imperial Culture: Byzantium	p. 113
Peoples of the Book: Muslim and Jewish Thought	p. 129
Western European Thought in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries	p. 160
Latin and Vernacular Literature
The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century	p. 175
Courtly Love Literature	p. 183
Goliardic Poetry, Fabliaux, Satire, and Drama	p. 200
Later Medieval Literature	p. 213
Mysticism, Devotion and Heresy
Cistercians and Victorines	p. 225
Franciscans, Dominicans, and Later Medieval Mystics	p. 234
Heresy in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries	p. 245
The Christian Commonwealth Reconfigured: Wycliff and Huss	p. 253
High and Late Medieval Speculative Thought
Scholasticism and the Rise of Universities	p. 265
The Twelfth Century: The Logica Modernorum and Systematic Theology	p. 274
The Thirteenth Century: Modism and Terminism, Latin Averroism, Bonaventure, and Thomas Aquinas	p. 289
Later Medieval Scholasticism: The Triumph of Terminism, Henry of Ghent, John Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham	p. 302
The Legacy of Scholasticism
The Natural Sciences: Reception and Criticism	p. 319
Economic Theory: Poverty, the Just Price, and Usury	p. 326
Political Theory: Regnum and Sacerdotum, Conciliarism, and Feudal Monarchy	p. 335
Conclusion	p. 352
Notes	p. 360
Bibliographical Note	p. 364
Index	p. 370
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Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 400-1400

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