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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      01 June 2011
      21 April 1988
      ISBN:
      9780511597916
      9780521429078
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511597916
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      (234 x 156 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.825kg, 508 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History of Philosophy, History, Philosophy, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
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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.’

    Source: The Times Higher Education Supplement

    ‘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.’

    Source: 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.’

    Source: Speculum

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