The intellectual life of Western Europe in the Middle Ages / / Richard C. Dales.

• VerfasserIn: Dales, Richard C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, New York, New York : : E. J. Brill,, [1992]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 1992
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (330 pages)

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.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface to the Second Edition -- PART ONE: THE ROMAN EMPIRE -- Chapter 1. The Intellectual Climate of the Roman Empire -- Chapter 2. The Christian Empire -- Chapter 3. Debased Roman Culture -- PART TWO: THE CAROLINGIAN AGE -- Chapter 4. Antecedent Developments -- Chapter 5. The First Generation of Carolingian Scholars -- Chapter 6. The Later Carolingian Age -- PART THREE: THE ROMANESQUE AGE -- Chapter 7. The Tenth Century -- Chapter 8. Monastic and Cathedral Schools of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries -- Chapter 9. The Romantic Love Literature of the Twelfth Century -- Chapter 10. The Medieval Renaissance -- PART FOUR: THE AGE OF THE UNIVERSITIES -- Chapter 11. The Universities -- Chapter 12. The Philosophy of the High Middle Ages -- Chapter 13. Medieval Science -- Chapter 14. Sub-University Culture -- Epilogue -- Index.