Medieval thought : the Western intellectual tradition from antiquity to the thirteenth century

The first edition of this work was received as an authoritative introduction to medieval thought for historians. The book is now issued in a second edition incorporating, besides revisions of detail, an extensive Supplementary Bibliography of recent primary and secondary scholarship and a new concluding chapter which critically surveys and sets in context the implications of the latest research. The text and apparatuses will thus continue to equip readers with a clear overview of the state of the question in a field whose current vigour testifies to its contemporary importance in European intellectual culture. Front Matter....Pages i-ix Introduction....Pages 1-6 Masters of Those Who Know — Plato, Aristotle and the Neoplatonists....Pages 7-35 From Ancient World to Middle Ages: Adaptation and Transmission....Pages 37-82 The Central Middle Ages — Logic, Theology and Cosmology....Pages 83-116 New Sources and New Institutions....Pages 117-143 Aristotelian Philosophy in the University — the First Phase of Assimilation....Pages 145-159 Aristotelian Philosophy and Christian Theology — System Building and Controversy....Pages 161-206 The Condemnations in Context....Pages 207-211 Epilogue: Aspects of Recent Research....Pages 212-237 Back Matter....Pages 239-315 This classic text is known asan authoritative introduction to medieval thought for historians. Now, revised throughout, its second edition includesan extensive Supplementary Bibliography of recent primary and secondary scholarship and a new concluding chapter which critically surveys and sets in context the implications of the latest research. The text offers students a clear overview of thefield whose current vigor testifies to its contemporary importance in Europeanintellectual culture This second edition incorporates, besides revisions of detail, a supplementary bibliography of recent primary and secondary scholarship and a new concluding chapter which critically surveys and sets in context the implications of the latest research. The emphasis (of this text) is on speculative thought, not however considered in the abstract but as manifesting the continuing vitality of an aspect of classical culture in the medieval world. Michael Haren. Previous Ed.: 1985. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 237-260.