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ILLUSTRATIONS
OF THE HISTORY OF
MEDIEVAL THOUGHT
AND LEARNING
BY
REGINALD LANE POOLE
SECOND EDITION, REVISED
LONDON
SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING
CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1920
PRINTED is GREAT BRITAIN BY
RICHARD CLAY & SONS, LIMITED,
PARIS GARDEN, STAMFORD ST., S.E. 1,
AND BUMGAY, SUFFOLK.
CONTENTS.
PAGE | |
Introduction | 1 |
The Church and Secular Learning .... | 5 |
The Irish Missionaries | 8 |
Learning in the Prankish Empire | 14 |
Learning in England | 16 |
Results on the Continent | 19 |
Chapter I. - Claudius of Turin and Agobard of Lyons. | 24 |
Claudius of Turin ...... | 25 |
Agobard of Lyons . . . . . . | 34 |
Gottschalk | 45 |
Chapter II. John Scotus | 46 |
The Controversy concerning Predestination . | 46 |
John Scotus ....... | 48 |
The Division of Nature | 52 |
John s Influence on Later Opinion | 65 |
Chapter III. The Dark Age | 69 |
State of Education . . . . . . | 71 |
Heresies ........ | 79 |
The Dialectical Movement ..... | 86 |
Chapter IV. The School of Chartres | 95 |
Bernard and Theodoric . . . . . | 100 |
William of Conches | 106 |
Gilbert of La Porree | 112 |
Chapter V. Peter Abailard | 116 |
Abailard as a Teacher of Dialectics . . . | 118 |
and of Theology | 123 |
His Condemnation at Soissons . . . . | 129 |
His Theological Writings | 138 |
His Condemnation at Sens . . . . . | 143 |
Chapter VI. The Trial of Gilbert of La Porée | 146 |
Reason and Authority . . . . . | 146 |
Opinions of Gilbert of La Porree .... | 156 |
The Council of Rheims | 163 |
Reputation of Abailard and of Gilbert . . . | 170 |
Chapter VII. John of Salisbury | 176 |
His Studies at Paris and Chartres . . . | 177 |
The Policraticus | 190 |
Chapter VIII. The Hierarchical Doctrine of the State | 198 |
The Hildebrandine Reform . | 199 |
John of Salisbury | 204 |
St. Thomas Aquinas | 210 |
The Donation of Constantino and the Translation of the Empire | 218 |
Augustin Trionfo | 222 |
Chapter IX. The Opposition to the Temporal Claims of the Papacy | 224 |
Peter du Bois | 224 |
Marsiglio of Padua | 230 |
William of Ockham | 241 |
Chapter X. Wycliffe’s Doctrine of Dominion. | 246 |
Wycliffe at Oxford | 249 |
His Treatises on Dominion ..... | 253 |
His View of Church and State | 263 |
APPENDIX.
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I. Note on the Origin of the Legend respecting John Scotus’s Travels in Greece .... | 271 |
II. Excursus on the Later History of John Scotus . | 273 |
III. Note on a Supposed Theological Exposition by Gerbert | 285 |
IV. Note on the Precursors of Nominalism . . | 291 |
V. Excursus on a Supposed Anticipation of Saint Anselm | 293 |
VI. Excursus on the Writings of William of Conches | 298 |
VII. Excursus on the Interpretation of a Place in John of Salisbury’s Metalogicus | 310 |
VIII. Note on Abailard’s Masters .... | 314 |
IX. Note on the Second Preface to Gilbert of La Porree’s Commentary on Boethius | 317 |
X. Note on Clarenbald of Arras | 320 |
INDEX | 323 |
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