'This is a particularly well-produced collection of meticulously researched papers on central aspects of philosophy in 12th-century western Europe … As a model of accessibility to non-specialists its appearance is especially welcome at a time when philistine charges of irelevance are increasingly being made against disinterested scholarship.' The Times Higher Education Supplement

• Preface; Contributors; List of abbreviations; Introduction Peter Dronke; Part I. Background: 1. Philosophy, cosmology, and the twelfth-century Renaissance Winthrop Wetherbee; 2. The platonic inheritance Tullio Gregory; 3. The Stoic inheritance Michael Lapidge; 4. The Arabic inheritance Jean Jolivet; Part II. New Perspectives: 5. Scientific speculations Charles Burnett; 6. Speculative grammar Karin Margareta Fredborg; 7. Logic (i): from the late eleventh century ot the time of Abelard Martin M. Tweedale; 8. Logic (ii): the later twelfth century Klaus Jacobi; Part III. Innovators: 9. Anselm of Canterbury Stephen Gersh; 10. Peter Abelard D. E. Luscombe; 11. William of Conches Dorothy Elford; 12. Gilbert of Poitiers a note on the Porretani John Marenbon; 13. Thierry of Chartres Peter Dronke; 14. Hermann of Carinthia Charles Burnett; Part IV. The Entry of the 'New' Aristotle: 15. Aristotelian thought in Salerno Danielle Jacquart; 16. David of Dinant and the beginnings of Aristoteliansim in Paris Enzo Maccagnolo; Bio-biographies; General bibliography; Index of manuscripts; General index.

'This is a particularly well-produced collection of meticulously researched papers on central aspects of philosophy in 12th-century western Europe … As a model of accessibility to non-specialists its appearance is especially welcome at a time when philistine charges of irelevance are increasingly being made against disinterested scholarship.' The Times Higher Education Supplement

• Preface; Contributors; List of abbreviations; Introduction Peter Dronke; Part I. Background: 1. Philosophy, cosmology, and the twelfth-century Renaissance Winthrop Wetherbee; 2. The platonic inheritance Tullio Gregory; 3. The Stoic inheritance Michael Lapidge; 4. The Arabic inheritance Jean Jolivet; Part II. New Perspectives: 5. Scientific speculations Charles Burnett; 6. Speculative grammar Karin Margareta Fredborg; 7. Logic (i): from the late eleventh century ot the time of Abelard Martin M. Tweedale; 8. Logic (ii): the later twelfth century Klaus Jacobi; Part III. Innovators: 9. Anselm of Canterbury Stephen Gersh; 10. Peter Abelard D. E. Luscombe; 11. William of Conches Dorothy Elford; 12. Gilbert of Poitiers a note on the Porretani John Marenbon; 13. Thierry of Chartres Peter Dronke; 14. Hermann of Carinthia Charles Burnett; Part IV. The Entry of the 'New' Aristotle: 15. Aristotelian thought in Salerno Danielle Jacquart; 16. David of Dinant and the beginnings of Aristoteliansim in Paris Enzo Maccagnolo; Bio-biographies; General bibliography; Index of manuscripts; General index.