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Title

Heretics and scholars in the High Middle Ages, 1000-1200 / Heinrich Fichtenau ; translated by Denise A. Kaiser.

Author

Fichtenau, Heinrich.

Publication

University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [1998], ©1998.

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Description

viii, 403 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"The struggle over fundamental issues erupted with great fury in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. In this book, preeminent medievalist Heinrich Fichtenau turns his attention to a new attitude that emerged in Western Europe around the year 1000. This new attitude was exhibited both in the rise of heresy in the general population and in the self-confident rationality of the nascent schools. With his characteristic learning and insight, Fichtenau shows how these two separate intellectual phenomena contributed to a medieval world that was never quite as uniform as might appear from our modern perspective." "First published in German in 1991, Heretics and Scholars in the High Middle Ages continues a grand tradition of scholarship on the intellectual history of the Middle Ages."--BOOK JACKET.

Uniform Title

Ketzer und Professoren. English

Alternative Title

Ketzer und Professoren.

Subjects

• Geleerden
• Rationalism > History
• Christian heresies > History > Middle Ages, 600-1500
• Scholastiek
• 4
• Europe > Church history > 600-1500
• Ketterij

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-389) and index.

Contents

Pt. 1. The Heresies -- 1. Western Heretics in the Eleventh Century -- 2. The Twelfth Century: Non-Cathars -- 3. The Twelfth Century: Bogomils and Cathars -- 4. Some Theories About Heresy -- 5. The Religious and Political Environment -- Pt. 2. Myth and Mystery -- 6. The Religious Myth: Bogomils and Cathars -- 7. The Philosophical Myth: Platonists -- 8. Religious Edification and Biblical Exegesis -- Pt. 3. The Realm of Reason -- 9. Ratio and Auctoritas -- 10. The Intellectual Pursuits of the Early Scholastics -- 11. The New Schools -- 12. Early Scholasticism and Heresy.

ISBN

0271017651 (alk. paper)

LCCN

97033622

OCLC

ocm37341526

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries