The second of two volumes on special theological disputations from ca. 1230-1330 in which audience members asked the era's greatest intellectuals questions de quolibet, "about anything." The variety of the material and the authors' stature make the genre uniquely fascinating.
By the Middle Ages, Christian theologians had a monopoly on higher education. This text argues that interaction between theology and philosophy was the result of the efforts of Christian leaders...
The nine essays in this collection, selected from La théologie au douzième siècle, inquire into the historical context and origins of medieval scholasticism. They are representative of Chenu's finest work.
This was the period which sowed the seeds of the divisions in the church which have persisted until today. Introduced with an editorial essay from G.R. Evans, this volume will appeal to theologians and historians.
This collaborative volume explores how the creation and the crossing of faculty, disciplinary and social boundaries contributed to the development of the medieval European university.
This book is essential reading for anyone interested in medieval thought, be they students of theology, philosophy or literature.
In this book, Steven Ozment traces the growth and dissemination of dissenting intellectual trends through three centuries to their explosive burgeoning in the Reformations—both Protestant and Catholic—of the sixteenth century.
This first volume from York Medieval Press includes studies of the metaphor of man as head and woman as body, Abelard, women and Catharism, the female body as an impediment to ordination, women mystics, and the University of York's 1995 ...
This is not to imply that no one before James or Giles had a concept of the Church,35 nor that James or Giles consciously sat down to write ecclesiology. As a term, “ecclesiology” dates ... Henry Chadwick, The Church in Ancient Society.
Law and Theology in the Middle Ages examines the tension between ecclesiastical and secular authority in mediaeval Europe by focusing upon the relationship between legal and theological responses to concepts such as justice, mercy, ...
The eleven essays in this volume consider theological writiers and texts from the 11th through 17th centuries, focusing mainly on the 13th through 15th centuries. They offer historical, rhetorical and...