Intellectuals in the Middle Ages

by Le Goff, Jacques; Fagan, Teresa Lavender

ISBN13: 9780631170785

ISBN10: 0631170782

Format: Hardcover

Pub. Date: 1992-12-01

Publisher(s): John Wiley & Sons Inc

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List of Plates
Preface
Translator's note
Introduction	p. 1
The Twelfth Century: The Birth of the Intellectuals	p. 5
Urban renaissance and the birth of the intellectual in the twelfth century	p. 5
Was there a Carolingian renaissance?	p. 7
Twelfth-century modernity: The ancients and the moderns	p. 9
The Greco-Arab contribution	p. 14
The translators	p. 15
Paris: Babylon or Jerusalem?	p. 20
The Goliards	p. 24
Intellectual vagabondage	p. 25
Immoralism	p. 27
Criticism of society	p. 29
Abelard	p. 35
Heloise	p. 38
Women and marriage in the twelfth century	p. 39
New battles	p. 41
St Bernard and Abelard	p. 43
The logician	p. 45
The moralist	p. 45
The humanist	p. 47
Chartres and the chartrian spirit	p. 48
Chartrian naturalism	p. 50
Chartrian humanism	p. 52
Man/microcosm	p. 55
The factory and "homo faber"	p. 57
Intellectual figures	p. 58
Chartrian influence	p. 59
The intellectual worker and the urban workplace	p. 61
Research and teaching	p. 62
Tools	p. 63
The Thirteenth Century: Maturity and its Problems	p. 65
Profile of the thirteenth century	p. 65
Against ecclesiastical powers	p. 66
Against lay powers	p. 67
The support and control of the Papacy	p. 69
Internal contradictions of the university corporation	p. 72
Organization of the university corporation	p. 73
The organization of studies	p. 75
Programs of study	p. 76
Exams	p. 77
The moral and religious climate	p. 79
University piety	p. 80
The tools of the trade	p. 82
The book as instrument	p. 83
The scholastic method	p. 86
Vocabulary	p. 86
Dialectics	p. 87
Authority	p. 87
Reason: Theology as "science"	p. 88
The exercises: Questio, disputatio, quodlibetica	p. 89
Contradictions - how to live: salary of benefice?	p. 93
The quarrel between the secular masters and the mendicant orders	p. 97
The contradictions of scholasticism: The danger of imitating the ancients	p. 104
The temptations of naturalism	p. 105
The difficult balance of faith and reason: Aristotelianism and averroism	p. 107
The relationship between reason and experience	p. 114
The relationship between theory and practice	p. 116
From Academic to Humanist	p. 119
The decline of the middle ages	p. 119
The evolution of the lives of academics	p. 121
Toward a hereditary aristocracy	p. 124
The colleges and the ennobling of the universities	p. 128
The evolution of scholasticism	p. 129
The divorce between reason and faith	p. 130
The limits of experimental science	p. 133
Anti-intellectualism	p. 135
The nationalization of universities: The new university geography	p. 138
Academics and politics	p. 142
The first national university: Prague	p. 145
Paris: The grandeur and weakness of university politics	p. 148
The sclerosis of scholasticism	p. 150
Academics open up to humanism	p. 154
The return to poetry and mysticism	p. 158
Concerning Aristotle: The return to beautiful language	p. 159
The aristocratic humanist	p. 161
The return to the countryside	p. 163
The break between knowledge and teaching	p. 165
Bibliography and Further Reading	p. 167
Index	p. 187
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