The Classical Heritage and Its Beneficiaries

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Cambridge University Press, 1954 - History - 591 pages
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.
 

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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
Index
543
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