This is the second of the three volumes comprising "Scholastic
Humanism and the Unification of Europe." Focusing on the period
from c.1090 to 1212, the volume explores the lives, resources and
contributions of a wide sample of scholars and others who either
took part in the creation of the scholastic system of thought or
gave practical effect to it in public life.
At the beginning of the twelfth century a group of scholars,
mostly centred on Paris and Bologna began an enterprise of
unprecedented scope. Their intention was to produce a
once-and-for-all body of knowledge that would be as perfect as
humanity's fallen state permits, and which would provide a view of
God, nature, and human conduct, promoting order in this world and
blessedness in the next. "Scholastic Humanism and the Unification
of Europe" reconsiders this enterprise, and its long-term effects
on European history.
The first of the three volumes examines the origins of the
intellectual enterprise from around 1060 AD. This second volume
focuses on the period during which scholars developed the
fully-fledged method of absorbing, elaborating, Christianizing and
systematizing the whole intellectual deposit of the Greco-Roman
past to produce a complete body of doctrine about both the natural
and supernatural worlds which would be not only rationally
unassailable and doctrinally coherent, but also capable of being
given practical application in organizing and governing the whole
of western Christendom.
The book discusses the contributions of individual masters
involved in the intellectual project, tracing the progress of the
enterprise from its scholastic origins under Anselm of Laon, to the
main masters in the schools ofParis during the 1090s to c.1160,
including men such as Peter Lombard, Peter Abelard, John of
Salisbury and the two Peters of Blois. These scholars created a
crucial bond between the schools and organized life of European
society. The men educated in the great schools during this time
brought their scholastic learning to governmental aims and
activities, extending the influence of the schools and their
intellectual project to the wider world.
Elegantly written, enlivened with wit and vivid anecdote,
"Scholastic Humanism and the Unification of Europe" will be a work
of seminal importance for the understanding of the civilization of
the Middle Ages, and of the evolution of modern European
societies.
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