A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages [Hardcover]

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• Provides a comprehensive who's who guide to medieval philosophers.
  
• Offers a refreshing mix of essays providing historical context followed by 140 alphabetically arranged entries on individual thinkers.
  
• Constitutes an extensively cross-referenced and indexed source.
  
• Written by a distinguished cast of philosophers.
  
• Spans the history of medieval philosophy from the fourth century AD to the fifteenth century.

List of Contributors xii

Preface xv

Chronological List xviii

Philosophy in the Middle Ages: An Introduction 1
Jorge J. E. Gracia

PART I: THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT

1 The Ancient Philosophical Legacy and its Transmission to the Middle Ages 15
Charles H. Lohr

2 The Patristic Background 23
Stephen F. Brown

3 Philosophy in the Latin Christian West: 750–1050 32
Peter King

4 The School of Chartres 36
Winthrop Wetherbee

5 Religious Orders 45
M. Michèle Mulchahey and Timothy B. Noone

6 Scholasticism 55
Timothy B. Noone

7 The Parisian Condemnations of 1270 and 1277 65
John F. Wippel

PART II: THE AUTHORS

1 Adam of Wodeham 77
Rega Wood