Heresy, Philosophy and Religion in the Medieval West

Gordon Leff, University of York, UK

'[the essays] show Leff's strengths in linking institutional and intellectual history, and in illuminating broad topics with careful historical work and telling examples.' Medium Aevum

• Contents: Foreword; Heresy, Religious Movements and the Church: In search of the Millennium; Heresy and the decline of the medieval Church; The Apostolic ideal in later medieval ecclesiology; Hérésie savante et hérésie populaire dans le bas moyen âge; The making of the myth of a true Church in the later Middle Ages; Wyclif: John Wyclif: the path to dissent; Wyclif and Hus: a doctrinal comparison; John Wyclif's religious doctrines; The place of metaphysics in Wyclif's theology; Philosophy and Theology: The 14th century and the decline of scholasticism; The theology of St Augustine’s two cities; Ockham and Wyclif on the Eucharist; Ockham and nominalism; The trivium and the three philosophies; Concepts of Man: The Christian concept of Man; St Augustine's concept of Man; The Franciscan concept of Man; The Bible and rights in the Franciscan disputes on poverty; Ockham and natural rights; Index.