ENGLISH

Founders of the Middle Ages

By Edward Kennard Rand

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
1929
ISBN
0486203697, 9780486203690
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (14093322 bytes)
Edition
2nd
Pages
XII+366\378
Topic
History
Time added
2018-07-16 14:43:55

Description

The aim of the book is, in the main, to make clear the importance of certain great men and of certain great movements in thought and culture during the early Christian centuries, particularly the fourth, fifth, and sixth, and to point out the significance of these men and these movements as precursors of certain aspects of mediaeval civilization. To those times the men of the Middle Ages looked back as to the epoch of their Founders. I. THE CHURCH AND PAGAN CULTURE: THE PROBLEM 3 II. THE CHURCH AND PAGAN CULTURE: THE SOLUTION 34 III. ST. AMBROSE THE MYSTIC 69 IV. ST. JEROME THE HUMANIST 102 V. BOETHIUS, THE FIRST OF THE SCHOLASTICS 135 VI. THE NEW POETRY 181 VII. THE NEW EDUCATION 218 VIII. ST. AUGUSTINE AND DANTE 251 LIST OF BOOKS 285 NOTES 287 INDEX 35I

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