The Scholastic Culture of the Middle Ages, 1000-1300

Now available from Waveland Press this highly regarded essay seeks to unify medieval culture by emphasizing its common institutions. The controlling theme is scholastic. Defined in a technical sense it is simply that manner of thinking teaching and writing devised in and characteristic of the medieval schools. From the Preface: "Unity of theme can best be achieved by ignoring what is irrelevant. To concentrate my efforts I have limited attention chronologically to the eleventh through the thirteenth centuries and geographically to France and Italy when and where I believe scholastic culture attained its apogee."