This work presents a connected account of western European thought from the Patristic age to the mid-fourteenth century. Dales aims to keep his reader close to the sense of the texts, which he translates, frequently at some length, or summarizes in his exposition. He attempts to include important matters which are generally omitted in broad treatments - the chapter on the tenth century is the longest in the book - but the author's choice of topics is fully justified by his special intimacy with what he elects to discuss, particularly the hexameral tradition (ancient and medieval), the scientific tradition, twelfth-century treatises on nature and cosmology, discussions of the eternity of the world, and the thought of Robert Grosseteste. This adds a personal and distinctive character to the word. Dales stresses throughout the diversity and vigor of medieval thought, qualities which he illustrates widely from Latin and vernacular poetry and literature of various kinds as well as from philosophical and theological texts.
Author(s): Richard C. Dales
Edition: 1
Publisher: University Press of America
Year: 1980
Language: English
Commentary: p. 168-170 are missing
Pages: 320
City: Washington
PART ONE: THE ROMAN EMPIRE
Chapter 1 — The Intellectual Climate of the Roman Empire 1
Chapter 2 — The Christian Empire 9
Chapter 3 -- Debased Roman Culture 37
PART TWO: THE CAROLINGIAN AGE
Chapter 4 — Antecedent Developments 61
Chapter 5 — The First Generation of Carolingian Scholars 73
Chapter 6 — The Later Carolingian Age 87
PART THREE: ROMANESQUE EUROPE
Chapter 7 — The Tenth Century 105
Chapter 8 - Monastic and Cathedral Schools of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries 145
Chapter 9 — The Romantic Love Literature of the Twelfth Century 167
Chapter 10 — The Medieval Renaissance 183
PART FOUR: THE AGE OF THE UNIVERSITIES
Chapter 11 - The Rise of the Universities 207
Chapter 12 - The Philosophy of the High Middle Ages 233
Chapter 13 — Medieval Science 263
Chapter 14 — Sub-University Culture 285
EPILOGUE 301
INDEX 303
