Medieval Thought / Edition 1

by David Luscombe

Overview

The Middle Ages span a period of well over a millennium: from the emperor Constantine's Christian conversion in 312 to the early sixteenth century. David Luscombe's clear and accessible history of medieval thought steers a clear path through this long period, beginning with the three greatest influences on medieval philosophy: Augustine, Boethius, and Pseudo-Denis, and focusing on Abelard, Anselm, Aquinas, Ockham, Duns Scotus, and Eckhart among others in the twelfth to fifteenth centuries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780192891792
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	05/01/1997
Series:	History of Western Philosophy , #2
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	7.69(w) x 5.13(h) x 0.63(d)
Lexile:	1560L (what's this?)

About the Author

David Luscombe is a Professor in the Department of History at the University of Sheffield.

Table of Contents

Introduction1. Three authorities2. The beginnings of medieval philosophy3. The revival of the eleventh and twelfth centuries4. The enlargement of the field of thought in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries5 The thirteenth century: until 1277. 6 The thirteenth century: after 1277. 7. The fourteenth century8. The fifteenth centuryNotes; Index

Editorial Reviews

"It is one of the strengths of this study that Luscombe explores the variety and subtlety of medieval thought in logic, the philosophy of language, psychology, natural philosophy, and ethics, as well as discussing God and the soul."—Choice

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