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Colish, Marcia L., Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2005, 448 pp.
- Resum
- This magisterial book is an analysis of the course of Western intellectual history between A.D. 400 and 1400. The book is arranged in two parts: the first surveys the comparative modes of thought and varying success of Byzantine, Latin-Christian, and Muslim cultures, and the second takes the reader from the eleventh-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. Marcia Colish argues that the foundations of the Western intellectual tradition were laid in the Middle Ages and not, as is commonly held, in the Judeo-Christian or classical periods. She contends that Western medieval thinkers produced a set of tolerances, tastes, concerns, and sensibilities that made the Middle Ages unlike other chapters of the Western intellectual experience. She provides astute descriptions of the vernacular and oral culture of each country of Europe; explores the nature of medieval culture and its transmission; profiles seminal thinkers (Augustine, Anselm, Gregory the Great, Aquinas, Ockham); studies heresy from Manichaeism to Huss and Wycliffe; and investigates the influence of Arab and Jewish writing on scholasticism and the resurrection of Greek studies. Colish concludes with an assessment of the modes of medieval thought that ended with the period and those that remained as bases for later ages of European intellectual history. -- Marcia L. Colish is Frederick B. Artz Professor of History at Oberlin College, Ohio.
Contents:
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
- Matèries
- Història de la cultura
Història de la ciència
- Notes
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