Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition: 400-1400

Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition: 400-1400

This book inaugurates an important new series that provides a chronological account of intellectual life and the development of ideas in Western Europe from the medieval period to the present.

Marcia L. Colish

Series: Yale intellectual history of the West

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.

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