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MEDIEVAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE WESTERN
INTELLECTUAL TRADITION 400 - 1400


Marcia L. Colish

 
 

Yale Univ. Press, New Haven, 1997, 388 pgs., index, end notes, bibliography, illustrations

 
 

Reviewer Comment -
A central and fundamental part of history is the history of ideas including the history of ideas about ideas. We, today, are still strongly influenced by ideas developed in medieval Europe and are perhaps even more influenced by our ideas about those ideas. This wonderful book tells the story.

 
 

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Part I From Roman Christianity to the Latin Christian Culture of the Early Middle Ages

 
 

Chapter I - From Apology to the Constantinian Establishment

 
 

Chapter 2 - The Latin Church Fathers, I: Ambrose and Jerome

 
 

Chapter 3 - The Latin Church Fathers: II, Ausgustine and Gregory the Great

 
 

Chapter 4 - Hanging by a Thread: The Transmitters and Monasticism

 
 

Chapter 5 - Europe's New Schoolmasers: Franks, Celts, and Anglo-Saxons

 
 

Chapter 6 - The Carolingian Renaissance

 
 

Part II - Vernacular Culture

 
 

Chapter 7 - Celtic and Old French Literature

 
 

Chapter 8 - Varieties of Germanic Literature: Old Norse, Old High German, and Old English

 
 

Part III - Early Medieval Civilizations Compared

 
 

Chapter 9 - Imperial Culture: Byzantium

 
 

Chapter 10 - Peoples of the Book: Muslim and Jewish Thought

 
 

Chapter 11 - Western European Thought in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries

 
 

Part IV - Latin and Vernacular Literature

 
 

Chapter 12 - The Renaissance of the Twelth Century

 
 

Chapter 13 - Courtly Love Literature

 
 

Chapter 14 - Goliardic Poetry, Fabliaux, Satire, and Drama

 
 

Chapter 15 - Later Medieval Literarure

 
 

Part V - Mysticism, Devotion and Heresy

 
 

Chapter 16 - Cistercians and Victorines

 
 

Chapter 17 - Franciscans, Dominicans, and Later Medieval Mystics

 
 

Chapter 18 - Heresy in the Twelth and Thirteenth Centuries

 
 

Chapter 19 - The Christian Commonwealth Reconfigured: Wycliff and Huss

 
 

Part VI - High and Late Medieval Speculative Thought

 
 

Chapter 20 - Scholasticism and the Rise of Universities

 
 

Chapter 21 - The Twenth Century: The Logica Modernorum and Systemic Theology

 
 

Chapter 22 - The Thirteenth Century: Modism and Terminism, Latin Averroism, Bonaventure, and Thomas Aquinas

 
 

Chapter 23 - Later Medieval Scholasticism: The Triumph of Terminism, Henry of Ghent, John Scotgus, and William of Ockham

 
 

Part VII - The Legacy of Scholasticism

 
 

Chapter 24 - The Natural Sciences: Reception and Criticism

 
 

Chapter 25 - Economic Theory: Poverty, the Just Price, and Usury

 
 

Chapter 26 -Political Theory: Regnum and Sacerdotum, Conciliarism, and Feudal Monarchy

 
  Conclusion  
     
 

Some references

 

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Harold J. Berman - Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition

 

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