Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition (Repost)
Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition
Yale University Press | February 8, 1999 | ISBN-10: 0300078528 | 448 pages | PDF | 1.2 MB
Yale University Press | February 8, 1999 | ISBN-10: 0300078528 | 448 pages | PDF | 1.2 MB
This magisterial book provides 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 twelfth-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.