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:

1 online resource (480 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris & Co., 2014.

Language Note:

English

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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Introduction: Institutions and sources: The sources: twelfth-century (re)discovery, thirteenth-century effects ; The institutional context

Consolidation: Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109) ; From 1100 to 1200: Peter Abelard ; Gilbert of Poitiers ; Bernard of Clairvaux ; The Victorines ; Peter Lombard

Revolution: From 1200 to 1277: Robert Grosseteste ; William of Auvergne ; Alexander of Hales ; Albert the Great ; Bonaventure ; Roger Bacon ; The Paris arts faculty ; Thomas Aquinas (c.1225-74)

Innovation: From 1277 to 1300: Correctorium literature ; Henry of Ghent ; Peter Olivi ; Giles of Rome ; Godfrey of Fontaines ; Duns Scotus (c. 1266-1308)

Simplification: William of Ockham (c. 1287-1347) ; From 1310 to 1350: Durand of St PourcÌʹain (and Hervaeus Natalis) ; Peter Auriol ; Ockham's Oxonian contemporaries, followers, and opponents ; Nicholas of Autrecourt ; Epilogue: Restrospection: John Wyclif (c.1330-84).

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

ISBN:

9780857723482

0857723480

9780755698240

075569824X

9780857735195

0857735195

OCLC:

881415644