The Classical Heritage and its Beneficiaries [Paperback]

Since its first publication in 1954, The Classical Heritage has become established as a classic introduction to cultural and intellectual history from the Carolingian age to the end of the Renaissance.Since its first publication in 1954, The Classical Heritage has become established as a classic introduction to cultural and intellectual history from the Carolingian age to the end of the Renaissance.Since its first publication in 1954, The Classical Heritage has become established as a classic introduction to cultural and intellectual history from the Carolingian age to the end of the Renaissance.Preface to 1973 impression; Introduction; 1. The background; 2. The Greek East; 3. The Carolingian Age; 4. The Pre-scholastic Age; 5. The Scolastic Age; 6. Collapse an new beginnings; 7. The high renaissance; 8. The end of the renaissance and the appearance of new patterns in classical education and scholarship; 9. Education and the classical heritage; Notes; Appendices; Index.'Mr Bolgar continually suppies concrete and fresh or unfamiliar information that makes the shadowy more substantial, and analytical comments that enrich or qualify or explode over-simple generalizations & There are few men who have the zeal, the comprehensive learning and the historical insight even to contemplate a single-handed work of such scope, and as a history and active reinterpretation of a great movement, Mr Bolgar's book is richly informative and illuminating.' Douglas Bush, Renaissance News'Bolgar's work is thick with new material and, better still, it draws many new diagonals through old subjects. The author's main interest centers in modifications in education, but he branches out to show the basic changes in law, philosophy, medicine, and literature in the Byzantine world & But to anyone interested in the intellectual history of the centuries A.D. 700 to 1600 the book will be a grande trouvaille.' Frederick B. Artz'He posses not only the vast knowledge required to fish in such wide waterlÃ-