Book Description

"The Mediaeval Mind" in 2 volumes is one of the best-known works by the American historian Henry Osborn Taylor that features the history of the development of thought and emotion in the Middle Ages. This carefully crafted e-artnow ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:_x000D_ Volume 1:_x000D_ The Groundwork:_x000D_ Genesis of the Mediaeval Genius_x000D_ The Latinizing of the West_x000D_ Greek Philosophy as the Antecedent of the Patristic Apprehension of Fact_x000D_ Intellectual Interests of the Latin Fathers_x000D_ Latin Transmitters of Antique and Patristic Thought_x000D_ The Barbaric Disruption of the Empire_x000D_ The Celtic Strain in Gaul and Ireland_x000D_ Teuton Qualities: Anglo-Saxon, German, Norse_x000D_ The Bringing of Christianity and Antique Knowledge to the Northern Peoples..._x000D_ The Early Middle Ages:_x000D_ Carolingian Period_x000D_ Mental Aspects of the 11th Century: Italy_x000D_ Mental Aspects of the 11th Century: France_x000D_ Mental Aspects of the 11th Century: Germany; England_x000D_ The Growth of Mediaeval Emotion..._x000D_ The Ideal and the Actual – The Saints:_x000D_ The Reforms of Monasticism_x000D_ The Hermit Temper_x000D_ The Quality of Love in St. Bernard_x000D_ St. Francis of Assisi_x000D_ Mystic Visions of Ascetic Women_x000D_ The Spotted Actuality..._x000D_ The Ideal and the Actual – Society:_x000D_ Feudalism and Knighthood_x000D_ Romantic Chivalry and Courtly Love_x000D_ Parzival, the Brave Man slowly Wise..._x000D_ Volume 2:_x000D_ The Heart of Heloïse_x000D_ German Considerations_x000D_ Symbolism:_x000D_ Scriptural Allegories in the Early Middle Ages_x000D_ The Rationale of the Visible World: Hugo of St. Victor_x000D_ Cathedral and Mass; Hymn and Imaginative Poem..._x000D_ Latinity and Law:_x000D_ The Spell of the Classics_x000D_ Evolution of Mediaeval Latin Prose_x000D_ Evolution of Mediaeval Latin Verse_x000D_ Mediaeval Appropriation of the Roman Law…_x000D_ Ultimate Intellectual Interests of the 12th and 13th Centuries:_x000D_ Scholasticism: Spirit, Scope, and Method_x000D_ Classification of Topics; Stages of Evolution_x000D_ Twelfth-Century Scholasticism_x000D_ The Universities, Aristotle, and the Mendicants_x000D_ Bonaventura_x000D_ Albertus Magnus_x000D_ Thomas Aquinas_x000D_ Roger Bacon_x000D_ Duns Scotus and Occam_x000D_ The Mediaeval Synthesis: Dante…