The Mediaeval Mind (Vol. 1&2‪)‬

"The Mediaeval Mind" in 2 volumes is one of the best-known works by the American historian Henry Osborn Taylor that features the history of the development of thought and emotion in the Middle Ages. This carefully crafted e-artnow ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:

Volume 1:

The Groundwork:

Genesis of the Mediaeval Genius

The Latinizing of the West

Greek Philosophy as the Antecedent of the Patristic Apprehension of Fact

Intellectual Interests of the Latin Fathers

Latin Transmitters of Antique and Patristic Thought

The Barbaric Disruption of the Empire

The Celtic Strain in Gaul and Ireland

Teuton Qualities: Anglo-Saxon, German, Norse

The Bringing of Christianity and Antique Knowledge to the Northern Peoples...

The Early Middle Ages:

Carolingian Period

Mental Aspects of the 11th Century: Italy

Mental Aspects of the 11th Century: France

Mental Aspects of the 11th Century: Germany; England

The Growth of Mediaeval Emotion...

The Ideal and the Actual – The Saints:

The Reforms of Monasticism

The Hermit Temper

The Quality of Love in St. Bernard

St. Francis of Assisi

Mystic Visions of Ascetic Women

The Spotted Actuality...

The Ideal and the Actual – Society:

Feudalism and Knighthood

Romantic Chivalry and Courtly Love

Parzival, the Brave Man slowly Wise...

Volume 2:

The Heart of Heloïse

German Considerations

Symbolism:

Scriptural Allegories in the Early Middle Ages

The Rationale of the Visible World: Hugo of St. Victor

Cathedral and Mass; Hymn and Imaginative Poem...

Latinity and Law:

The Spell of the Classics

Evolution of Mediaeval Latin Prose

Evolution of Mediaeval Latin Verse

Mediaeval Appropriation of the Roman Law…

Ultimate Intellectual Interests of the 12th and 13th Centuries:

Scholasticism: Spirit, Scope, and Method

Classification of Topics; Stages of Evolution

Twelfth-Century Scholasticism

The Universities, Aristotle, and the Mendicants

Bonaventura

Albertus Magnus

Thomas Aquinas

Roger Bacon

Duns Scotus and Occam

The Mediaeval Synthesis: Dante…