The medieval Christian philosophers : an introduction / Richard Cross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cross, Richard, 1964- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Medieval.

Scholasticism.

Physical Description:

x, 274 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : I.B. Tauris, 2014.

Summary:

The High Middle Ages were remarkable for their coherent sense of 'Christendom': of people who belonged to a homogeneous Christian society marked by uniform rituals of birth and death and worship. That uniformity, which came under increasing strain as national European characteristics became more pronounced, achieved perhaps its most perfect intellectual expression in the thought of the western Christian thinkers who are sometimes called 'scholastic theologians'. This book offers the first focused introduction to these thinkers based on the individuals themselves and their central preoccupations.

Contents:

Introduction : Institutions and sources :

The sources : twelf-century (re)discovery, thirteenth-century effects

The institutional context

Part I. Consolidation :

1. Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109)

2. From 1100 to 1200 :

Peter Abelard

Gilbert of Poitiers

Bernard of Clairvaux

The Victorines

Peter Lombard

Part II. Revolution :

3. From 1200 to 1277 :

Robert Grosseteste

William of Auvergne

Alexander of Hales

Albert the Great

Bonaventure

Roger Bacon

The Paris arts faculty

4. Thomas Aquinas (c.1225-74)

Part III. Innovation :

5. From 1277 to 1300 :

Correctorium literature

Henry of Ghent

Peter Olivi

Giles of Rome

Godfrey of Fontaines

6. Duns Scotus (c. 1266-1308)

Part IV. Simplification :

7. William of Ockham (c. 1287-1347)

8. From 1310 to 1350 :

Durand of St Pourçain (and Hervaeus Natalis)

Peter Auriol

Ockham's Oxonian contemporaries, followers, and opponents

Nicholas of Autrecourt

Epilogue: Restrospection : John Wyclif (c.1330-84)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-260) and index.

ISBN:

9781848855434

1848855435

9781848855427

1848855427

OCLC:

865004377