A History of Twelfth-Century Western Philosophy
- Editor: Peter Dronke
- Date Published: July 1992
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521429078
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This is the first comprehensive study of the philosophical achievements of twelfth-century Western Europe. It is the collaboration of fifteen scholars whose detailed survey makes accessible the intellectual preoccupations of the period, with all texts cited in English translation throughout. After a discussion of the cultural context of twelfth-century speculation, and some of the main streams of thought - Platonic, Stoic, and Arabic - that quickened it, comes a characterisation of the new problems and perspectives of the period, in scientific inquiry, speculative grammar, and logic. This is followed by a closer examination of the distinctive features of some of the most innovative thinkers of the time, from Anselm and Abelard to the School of Chartres. A final section shows the impact of newly recovered works of Aristotle in the twelfth-century West.
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'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
See more reviews'All of the essays are of high quality and offer excellent introductions to the textual sources. Taken together they reveal a complementarity rare in collections of this kind.' History of European Ideas
'[A History of Twelfth-Century Western Philosophy] belongs not only in all college and university libraries but also in the private libraries of all serious medievalists.' Speculum
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- Date Published: July 1992
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521429078
- length: 508 pages
- dimensions: 226 x 153 x 34 mm
- weight: 0.74kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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.
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