Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition 400-1400
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16614665 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Ward Holder (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 314-316 |
| Publication date | 1999-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sixteenth Century Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-0160 • E-ISSN: 2326-0726 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2545002 |
| OpenAlex | W2018536385 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
Examining the course of Western intellectual history between 400-1400 this text is arranged in two parts. The first surveys the comparative modes of thought and varying success of Byzantine, Latin-Christian and Muslim cultures, and the second takes the reader from the 11th century revival of learning to the high Middle Ages and beyond, the period in which the vibrancy of Western intellectual culture enabled it to stamp its imprint well beyond the frontiers of Christendom. Marcia Colish argues that the foundations of the Western intellectual tradition were laid in the Middle Ages and not, as is commonly held, in the Judeo-Christian or classical periods. She contends that Western medieval thinkers produced a set of tolerances, tastes, concerns and sensibilities that made the Middle Ages unlike other chapters of the Western intellectual experience. She provides descriptions of the vernacular and oral culture of each country in Europe; explores the nature of medieval culture and its transmission; profiles seminal thinkers, such as Augustine, Anslem, Gregory the Great, Aquinas and Ockham; studies heresy from Manichaeism to Huss and Wycliffe; and investigates the influence of Arab and Jewish writing on scholasticism and the resurrection of Greek studies. Colish concludes with an assessment of the modes of medieval thought that ended with the period and those that remained as bases for later ages of European intellectual history
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Byzantine architecture · Christianity · Early modern period · Heresy · Intellectual history · Late Antiquity · Literature · Medieval history · Medieval Latin · Middle Ages · Period (music · Scholasticism · Theology · Vernacular · Western culture · Western europe · Western thought · Classics · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Medieval Literature and History · Medieval Philosophy and Theology · Philosophy · Religious studies · Religious Studies
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| Citations per year | 0.58 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2002 - 2017 (16) |
| Highly cited | No |