The Classical Heritage and Its BeneficiariesSince 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. |
Contents
The Background | 13 |
II The Educational Inheritance | 26 |
III The Patristic Tradition | 45 |
The Greek East | 59 |
I The attack on Hellenism | 61 |
II Ecclesiastical Hellenism | 66 |
III The eleventhcentury Renaissance | 72 |
IV The counterattack by the Church | 78 |
I The Reorganisation of Literary Studies | 207 |
II The Reorganisation of Philosophy | 224 |
III The Organisation of General Knowledge | 230 |
IV The Reorganisation in Medicine and Law | 235 |
V The Causes of the Scholastic Movement | 236 |
Collapse and New Beginnings | 239 |
The High Renaissance | 265 |
II The Additions to the Classical Heritage | 275 |
V The Latin invasion and the fourteenthcentury Renaissance | 82 |
The Carolingian Age | 91 |
I Classical Studies in Ireland and Britain 450650 | 92 |
II The AngloSaxon Schools 650800 | 95 |
III The Educational Reforms of Charlemagne | 106 |
IV The Educational CrossCurrents of the Ninth Century | 117 |
The Prescholastic Age | 130 |
I The Revival of Roman Law | 140 |
II The Study of Aristotelian Logic | 149 |
III The Study of Medicine and Natural Philosophy | 162 |
IV The Study of Literature | 183 |
V The General Character of the TwelfthCentury Revival of Learning | 200 |
The Scholastic Age | 202 |
III Humanism and the Specialties | 282 |
IV Humanism outside of the Specialties | 295 |
The End of the Renaissance and the Appearance of New Patterns in Classical Education and Scholarship | 302 |
II Imitation in the Vernaculars | 317 |
III Pietas Litterata | 329 |
IV The New Scholarship | 369 |
Education and the Classical Heritage | 380 |
Notes | 394 |
Greek MSS in Italy during the Fifteenth Century | 455 |
The Translations of Greek and Roman Classics before 1600 | 506 |
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