Pagans and Philosophers : : The Problem of Paganism from Augustine to Leibniz / / John Marenbon.
From the turn of the fifth century to the beginning of the eighteenth, Christian writers were fascinated and troubled by the "Problem of Paganism," which this book identifies and examines for the first time. How could the wisdom and virtue of the great thinkers of antiquity be reconciled w...
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| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- A Note on References and Citations
- Introduction: The Problem of Paganism
- Part I: The Problem Takes Shape
- CHAPTER 1. Prelude: Before Augustine
- CHAPTER 2. Augustine
- CHAPTER 3. Boethius
- Part II: From Alcuin to Langland
- CHAPTER 4. The Early Middle Ages and the Christianization of Europe
- CHAPTER 5. Abelard
- CHAPTER 6. John of Salisbury and the Encyclopaedic Tradition
- CHAPTER 7. Arabi, Mongolia and Beyond: Contemporary Pagans in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
- CHAPTER 8. Aristotelian Wisdom: Unity, Rejection or Relativism
- CHAPTER 9. University Theologians on Pagan Virtue and Salvation
- CHAPTER 10. Dante and Boccaccio
- CHAPTER 11. Langland and Chaucer
- Part III: The Continuity of the Problem of Paganism, 1400-1700
- CHAPTER 12. Pagan Knowledge, 1400-1700
- CHAPTER 13. Pagan Virtue, 1400-1700
- CHAPTER 14. The Salvation of Pagans, 1400-1700
- EPILOGUE. Leibniz and China
- General Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index