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Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition (Paperback, New Ed)
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Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: Yale Intellectual History of the West Series
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Loot Price R534
Discovery Miles 5 340
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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.
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