Medieval Thought [Paperback]

The Middle Ages span a period of well over a millennium: from the emperor Constantine's Christian conversion in 312 to the early sixteenth century. David Luscombe's clear and accessible history of medieval thought steers a clear path through this long period, beginning with the three greatest influences on medieval philosophy: Augustine, Boethius, and Pseudo-Denis, and focusing on Abelard, Anselm, Aquinas, Ockham, Duns Scotus, and Eckhart among others in the twelfth to fifteenth centuries.

Introduction
1. Three authorities
2. The beginnings of medieval philosophy
3. The revival of the eleventh and twelfth centuries
4. The enlargement of the field of thought in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
5 The thirteenth century: until 1277.
6 The thirteenth century: after 1277.
7. The fourteenth century
8. The fifteenth century
Notes; Index

It is one of the strengths of this study that Luscombe explores the variety and subtlety of medieval thought in logic, the philosophy of language, psychology, natural philosophy, and ethics, as well as discussing God and the soul. --Choice

David Luscombeis a Professor in the Department of History at the University of Sheffield.