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Index
Cover page
Halftitle page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication page
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Dates
Part I. Early Medieval Philosophy
1. Arts of Darkness—Introduction to Medieval Philosophy
2. Charles in Charge—The Carolingian Renaissance
3. Grace Notes—Eriugena and the Predestination Controversy
4. Much Ado About Nothing—Eriugena’s Periphyseon
5. Philosophers Anonymous—The Roots of Scholasticism
6. Virgin Territory—Peter Damian on Changing the Past
7. A Canterbury Tale—Anselm’s Life and Works
8. Somebody’s Perfect—Anselm’s Ontological Argument
9. All or Nothing—The Problem of Universals
10. Get Thee to a Nunnery—Heloise and Abelard
11. It’s the Thought that Counts—Abelard’s Ethics
12. Learn Everything—The Victorines
13. Like Father, like Son—Debating the Trinity
14. On the Shoulders of Giants—Philosophy at Chartres
15. The Good Book—Philosophy of Nature
16. One of a Kind—Gilbert of Poitiers on Individuation
17. Two Swords—Early Medieval Political Philosophy
18. Law and Order—Gratian and Peter Lombard
19. Leading Light—Hildegard of Bingen
20. Rediscovery Channel—Translations into Latin
21. Straw Men—The Rise of the Universities
Part II. The Thirteenth Century
22. No Uncertain Terms—Thirteenth-Century Logic
23. Full of Potential—Thirteenth-Century Physics
24. Stayin’ Alive—Thirteenth-Century Psychology
25. It’s All Good—The Transcendentals
26. Do the Right Thing—Thirteenth-Century Ethics
27. A Light That Never Goes Out—Robert Grosseteste
28. Origin of Species—Roger Bacon
29. Stairway to Heaven—Bonaventure
30. Your Attention, Please—Peter Olivi
31. None for Me, Thanks—Franciscan Poverty
32. Begin the Beguine—Hadewijch and Mechthild of Magdeburg
33. Binding Arbitration—Robert Kilwardby
34. Animal, Vegetable, Mineral—Albert the Great’s Natural Philosophy
35. The Shadow Knows—Albert the Great’s Metaphysics
36. The Ox Heard round the World—Thomas Aquinas
37. Everybody Needs Some Body—Aquinas on Soul and Knowledge
38. What Comes Naturally—Ethics in Albert and Aquinas
39. What Pleases the Prince—The Rule of Law
40. Onward Christian Soldiers—Just War Theory
41. Paris When it Sizzles—The Condemnations
42. Masters of the University—“Latin Averroists”
43. The NeverEnding Story—The Eternity of the World
44. Let Me Count the Ways—Speculative Grammar
45. Love, Reign over Me—The Romance of the Rose
46. Frequently Asked Questions—Henry of Ghent
47. Here Comes the Son—The Trinity and the Eucharist
48. Once and for All—Scotus on Being
49. To Will or Not to Will—Scotus on Freedom
50. On Command—Scotus on Ethics
51. One in a Million—Scotus on Universals and Individuals
Part III. The Fourteenth Century
52. Time of the Signs—The Fourteenth Century
53. After Virtue—Marguerite Porete
54. To Hell and Back—Dante Alighieri
55. Our Power is Real—The Clash of Church and State
56. Render unto Caesar—Marsilius of Padua
57. Do As You’re Told—Ockham on Ethics and Political Philosophy
58. A Close Shave—Ockham’s Nominalism
59. What Do You Think?—Ockham on Mental Language
60. Keeping it Real—Responses to Ockham
61. Back to the Future—Foreknowledge and Predestination
62. Trivial Pursuits—Fourteenth-Century Logic
63. Quadrivial Pursuits—The Oxford Calculators
64. Get to the Point—Fourteenth-Century Physics
65. Portrait of the Artist—John Buridan
66. Seeing is Believing—Nicholas of Autrecourt’s Skeptical Challenge
67. On the Money—Medieval Economic Theory
68. Down to the Ground—Meister Eckhart
69. Men in Black—The German Dominicans
70. A Wing and a Prayer—Angels in Medieval Philosophy
71. Alle Maner of Thyng Shall be Welle—English Mysticism
72. Say it with Poetry—Chaucer and Langland
73. The Good Wife—Sexuality and Misogyny in the Middle Ages
74. Sighs Were her Food—Catherine of Siena and Affective Mysticism
75. The Most Christian Doctor—The Querelle de la rose and Jean Gerson
76. Morning Star of the Reformation—John Wyclif
77. The Prague Spring—Scholasticism across Europe
78. Renaissance Men—Ramon Llull and Petrarch
Notes
Preface
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Chapter 68
Chapter 69
Chapter 70
Chapter 71
Chapter 72
Chapter 73
Chapter 74
Chapter 75
Chapter 76
Chapter 77
Chapter 78
Further Reading
Publisher’s Acknowledgments
Index
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