Scholastic Humanism and the Unification of Europe, Volume I Foundations [Hardcover]

to produce a definitive body of knowledge that would be as perfect as humanity's fallen state permits, and which would provide a view of God, nature, and human conduct, promoting order in this world and blessedness in the next.Preface.

List of Maps and Plates.

Abbreviations and Short Titles.

Two Preliminary Maps.

Introduction.

PART ONE – AIMS, METHODS, AND ENVIRONMENT.

1 Scholastic Humanism.

I Contrasting types of humanism.

II Characteristic features of scholastic humanism.

III The problem of the natural sciences.

IV Summits of success.

V The regulation of social life.

VI The loss of hope.

2 Chartrian Humanism: A Romantic Misconception.

I Introduction.

II Humanism and the School of Chartres.

III Replies to critics.

3 The Sovereign Textbook of the Schools: The Bible.

I The qualities of the Bible in scholastic thought.

II Methods of investigation.

III Bringing the message of the schools to the world.

4 Social and Political Roots of Scholastic Thought.

I Pre-scholastic and scholastic Europe.

II The new symbiosis of schools and government.

III The schools, society and the individual.

IV The schools and the papacy.

5 The Men and their Rewards.

I Scholars of the world.

II Ancients and Moderns.

III The new age.

IV The glory and gossip of the schools.

6 The Scholastic Metropl£‹