The Evolution of Medieval Thought by David Knowles (.ePUB)
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The Evolution of Medieval Thought by David Knowles (Second Edition)
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Overview: First published in 1962, Dom David Knowles’s The Evolution of Medieval Thought remains a uniquely readable introduction to the interests and outlooks of the great Western thinkers from Plato to Ockham. Its aim is to show the essential connection between the thought of the medieval schools of philosophy and that of the Greek philosophers, as it was mediated to the medieval world by the Neoplatonists, St Augustine, and the Arabian and Jewish thinkers of the early Middle Ages.
Despite developments in the study of the subject since it first appeared, Knowles’s illuminating book has retained its original value and appeal: his biographical portraits are often very fine and his summaries of currents of thought and of important debates remain as clear as ever. Nevertheless, the subject has been very active in recent years; and the appearance of this fine updated Second Edition, by David Luscombe and Christopher Brooke, will be widely welcomed.
In essentials Knowles’s text remains as he left it; but the authors have made corrections with a careful and sympathetic eye, and provided extra annotations. They have also contributed a substantial new Introduction explaining how today’s historians see the topics discussed by Knowles, and enlarging on some aspects of medieval thought that now seem to deserve rather fuller treatment. In this respect they have paid particular attention to fourteenth-century thought, which has been the subject of much recent study, and which Dom David himself treated as a kind of epilogue to the original text. There is also an extensive new reading list to help the reader search out the best and most recent literature in the field.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Faith, Beliefs & Philosophy Ancient & Classical, History, Medieval, Philosophy; Medieval, Religious Thought
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