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God and Reason in the Middle Ages

By Edward Grant

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2001
ISBN
0521003377, 9780521003377, 0521802792, 9780521802796, 9780511019906
Open Library ID
OL7712650M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1369659 bytes)
Pages
408\409
Topic
History
Time added
2011-04-20 14:05:05

Description

The Age of Reason associated with the names of Descartes, Newton, Hobbes, and the French philosophers, actually began in the universities that first emerged in the late Middle Ages (1100 to 1600) when the first large scale institutionalization of reason in the history of civilization occurred. This study shows how reason was used in the university subjects of logic, natural philosophy, and theology, and to a much lesser extent in medicine and law. The final chapter describes how the Middle Ages acquired an undeserved reputation as an age of superstition, barbarism, and unreason.

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