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Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages

A summary of mediaeval aesthetic ideas, by Italian novelist and playwright Umberto Eco. Juxtaposing theology and science, poetry and mysticism, Eco explores the relationship that existed between the aesthetic theories and the artistic experience a...

Mellan ängel och best : människans värdighet och gåta i europeisk tradition

Det handlar om rötterna till vår europeiska identitet, om människans frihet och värdighet men också om vår obegripliga förmåga till ondska. En efterfrågad bok!

The Cambridge History of Medieval Political Thought c.350-c.1450

This volume offers a comprehensive and authoritative account of the history of a complex and varied body of ideas over a period of more than a thousand years. A work of both synthesis and assessment, The Cambridge History of Medieval Political Tho...

The Consolation of Philosophy

Boethius composed the De Consolatione Philosophiae in the sixth century AD whilst awaiting death under torture, condemned on a charge of treason which he protested was manifestly unjust. Though a convinced Christian, in detailing the true end of l...

The Christocentric Cosmology of St Maximus the Confessor

Maximus the Confessor (580-662) was an important Byzantine thinker, the 'father of Byzantine theology'. This study describes his metaphysical world-view. The discussion covers Maximus' doctrine of creation, the Logos and the logoi, the cosmic orde...

Fifty Key Medieval Thinkers

Focussing on individuals whose ideas shaped intellectual life between 400 and 1500, Fifty Key Medieval Thinkers is an accessible introduction to those religious, philosophical and political concepts central to the medieval worldview. Including suc...

Northumbria, 500-1100 - Creation and Destruction of a Kingdom

This book deals with the rise and fall of the kingdom of Northumbria. It examines the mechanisms of ethnic, political, social and religious change which, beginning after the end of the Roman Empire, welded the large and disparate area between the ...

A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages

This comprehensive reference volume features essays by some of the most distinguished scholars in the field. It provides a comprehensive 'who's who' guide to medieval philosophers. It offers a refreshing mix of essays providing historical context ...

Neoplatonic Saints - The Lives of Plotinus and Proclus by Their Students

These two texts are fundamental for the understanding not only of Neoplatonism but also of the conventions of biography in late antiquity. Neither has received such extensive annotation before in English, and this new commentary makes full use of ...

Anglo-saxon Christianity - Exploring the Earliest Roots of Christian Spirituality in England

Following the interest in recent years in Celtic spirituality, Paul Cavill's book looks at the impact of Christianity on the pagan Germanic peoples who invaded Britain from the 5th century onwards. Drawing on historical and archeological evidence,...

Boethius

This book offers a brief, accessible introduction to the thought of Boethius. After a survey of Boethius's life and work, Marenbon explicates his theological method, and devotes separate chapters to his arguments about good and evil, fortune, fate...

Islamic Humanism

This book is an attempt to explain how, in the face of increasing religious authoritarianism in medieval Islamic civilization, some Muslim thinkers continued to pursue essentially humanistic, rational, and scientific discourses in the quest for kn...

Islamic Humanism

Eriugena

This book deals with Johannes Scottus Eriugena, an Irish scholar at the Court of Charles the Bald in France in the second half of the ninth century - to be clearly distinguished from John Duns Scotus (1264-1308), after whom `Scotist' philosophy is...

Biblical Natural Law - A Theocentric and Teleological Approach

An introduction to natural law theory and a challenge to re-think current biblical scholarship on the topic. Levering establishes the relevance of a biblical worldview to the contemporary pursuit of a moral life and locates his argument in the con...

Fifty Key Medieval Thinkers

Focussing on individuals whose ideas shaped intellectual life between 400 and 1500, Fifty Key Medieval Thinkers is an accessible introduction to those religious, philosophical and political concepts central to the medieval worldview. Including suc...

Medieval Philosophy and the Classical Tradition - In Islam, Judaism and Christianity

An initial chapter on the history of Islamic philosophy sets the stage for sixteen articles on issues across the three traditions. The goal is to see the Islamic tradition in its own richness and complexity as the context of most Jewish intellectu...

Isaac Israeli - A Neoplatonic Philosopher of the Early Tenth Century

Recognized as one of the earliest Jewish Neoplatonist writers, Isaac ben Solomon Israeli (ca. 855-955) influenced Muslim, Jewish, and Christian scholars through the Middle Ages. A native of Egypt who wrote in Arabic, Israeli explored definitions o...

The Mind of the Middle Ages - Historical Survey, A.D.200-1500

"This is the third edition of a near standard survey of the intellectual life of the age of faith. Artz on the arts, as on philosophy, politics and other aspects of culture, makes lively and informative reading."--"The Washington Po...

The Legend of the Middle Ages - Philosophical Explorations of Medieval Christianity, Judaism, and Islam

Through a penetrating interview and sixteen essays, this volume explores key intersections of medieval religion and philosophy. With characteristic erudition and insight, Remi Brague focuses less on individual Christian, Jewish, and Muslim thinker...

Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 400-1400

This magisterial book is an analysis of the course of Western intellectual history between A.D. 400 and 1400. The book is arranged in two parts: the first surveys the comparative modes of thought and varying success of Byzantine, Latin-Christian, ...

Science, the Singular and the Question of Theology

This study explores the role that the singular plays in the theories of science of Robert Grosseteste, Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, William of Ockham, Marsilius of Inghen, and Pierre d'Ailly. It pursues the question specifically in relation to the...

Avicenna

the philosophers in the West, none, perhaps, is better known by name and less familiar in actual content of his ideas than the medieval Muslim philosopher, physician, minister and naturalist Abu Ali Ibn Sina, known since the days of the scholastic...

Fifty Key Medieval Thinkers

Focussing on individuals whose ideas shaped intellectual life between 400 and 1500, Fifty Key Medieval Thinkers is an accessible introduction to those religious, philosophical and political concepts central to the medieval worldview. Including suc...

Philosophy and Rabbinic Culture - Jewish Interpretation and Controversy in Medieval Languedoc

"Philosophy and Rabbinic Culture" is a study of the great, and curiously underappreciated, engagement of a Medieval European Jewish community with the philosophic tradition. This lucid description of the Languedocian Jewish community's m...

Medieval Jewish Civilization - An Encyclopedia

This is the first encyclopedic work to focus exclusively on medieval Jewish civilization, from the fall of the Roman Empire to about 1492. The more than 150 alphabetically organized entries, written by scholars from around the world, include biogr...

Dante's Aesthetics of Being

"I am one who, when love inspires me, takes note . . ." --Dante Despite the absence of tracts about beauty and art, aesthetic issues did command the attention of people in the Middle Ages. Whenever poets or philosophers turned their thou...

Lessons from the Past - The Moral Use of History in Fourth-century Prose

Because of the didactic nature of the historical genre, many scholars ancient and modern have seen connections between history and rhetoric. So far, discussion has centered on fifth-century authors -- Herodotus and Thucydides, along with the sophi...

The School of Peter Abelard - The Influence of Abelard's Thought in the Early Scholastic Period

Peter Abelard conducted many analyses of Scriptural and Patristic teachings, and achieved an extensive rapprochement between Christian and pagan thought. His public career was ended in 1140 by an ecclesiastical condemnation, but this touched upon ...

The Cambridge History of Medieval Political Thought c.350-c.1450

This volume offers a comprehensive and authoritative account of the history of a complex and varied body of ideas over a period of more than a thousand years. A work of both synthesis and assessment, The Cambridge History of Medieval Political Tho...