Heretics and Scholars in the High Middle Ages, 1000-1200

Heretics and Scholars in the High Middle Ages, 1000-1200
ISBN-10
0271043741
ISBN-13
9780271043746
Category
Religion
Language
English
Published
2010-11-01
Publisher
Penn State Press
Author
Heinrich Fichtenau

Description

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.

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