Heretics and scholars in the High Middle Ages, 1000-1200
Editorial THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE U.P.
Mainland Spain
- Publisher THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE U.P.
- ISBN13 9780271020464
- ISBN10 0271020466
- Type Book
- Pages 403
- Published 2000
- Bookbinding Rustic
Heretics and scholars in the High Middle Ages, 1000-1200
Editorial THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE U.P.
Mainland Spain
Book Details
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.