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The closing of the Western mind : the rise of faith and the fall of reason / Charles Freeman.
LIBRA - Special CB245 .F73 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Freeman, Charles, 1947-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civilization, Western.
- Christianity--Influence.
- Christianity.
- Church and state--Europe--History.
- Church and state.
- Europe.
- History.
- Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
- Church history.
- Church history--Primitive and early church.
- Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
- Church history--Middle Ages.
- Civilization, Western--Classical influences.
- Hellenism.
- Europe--History--To 476.
- Europe--History--476-1492.
- Europe--Intellectual life.
- Intellectual life.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, xxiii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 432 pages, 6 unnumbered pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- [First American edition].
- Manufacture:
- Berryville, Virginia : Printed and bound by Berryville Graphics.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
- Contents:
- Thomas Aquinas and "the triumph of faith"
- The quest for certainty
- The quest for virtue
- Changing political contexts: Alexander and the coming of the Hellenistic monarchies
- Absorbing the East, Rome and the integration of Greek culture
- "All nations look to the majesty of Rome": the Roman empire at its height
- The empire in crisis, the empire in recovery: political transformations in the third century
- Jesus
- Paul, "the founder of Christianity"?
- "A crowd that lurks in corners, shunning light": the first Christian communities
- Constantine and the coming of the Christian state
- "But what I wish, that must be canon": emperors and the making of Christian doctrine
- "Enriched by the gifts of matrons": bishops and society in the fourth century
- Six emperors and a bishop: Ambrose of Milan
- Interlude: Quintus Aurelius Symmachus and the defence of paganism
- The ascetic odyssey
- Eastern Christianity and the emergence of the Byzantine Empire, 395-600
- The emergence of Catholic Christianity in the West, 395-640
- "We honour the privilege of silence which is without peril": the death of the Greek empirical tradition
- Thomas Aquinas and the restoration of reason.
- Notes:
- "This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf."
- "Originally published in Great Britain by William Heinemann, London, in 2002."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [405]-416) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Freeman, Charles, 1947- Closing of the Western mind.
- ISBN:
- 140004085X :
- 9781400040858
- OCLC:
- 51306061
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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