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(hOeLO FT HEOoLOGYA ATTCdL AREEMMOONN(TT peu t eVAL “Word Vi EW AN INTRODUCTION | S &£ ££ oO NN: @ = wer ft TF | OM : WILLIAM R. cook. | RONALD b.D ERZMAN: | | ie —+ The Library of Claremont Schoolo f Theology 1325 North College Avenue Claremont, CA 91711-3199 (909) 447-2589 THE MEDIEVAL WORLD VIEW Bernard of Chartres used to compare us to dwarfs perched on the shoulders of giants. He pointed out that we see more and farther than our predecessors, not because we have keener vision or greater height, but because we are lifted up and borne aloft on their gigantic stature. JOHN OF SALISBURY (c. 1115-80) Metalogicon S| -SY 004 THE MEDIEVAL WORLD VIEW AN INTRODUCTION Second Edition WILLIAM R. COOK RONALD B. HERZMAN State University of New York, Geneseo New York Oxford OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2004 Oxford University Press Oxford New York Auckland Bangkok Buenos Aires Cape Town Chennai Dar es Salaam Delhi Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kolkata Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Mumbai Nairobi Sao Paulo Shanghai Taipei .Tokyo Toronto Copyright © 1983, 2004 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Published by Oxford University Press, Inc. 198 Madison Avenue, New York, New York, 10016 http://www.oup-usa.org Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cook, William R. (William Robert), 1943- The medieval world view / William R. Cook and Ronald B. Herzman.—2nd ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 978-0-19-513935-8 1. Civilization, Medieval. I. Herzman, Ronald B. II. Title. CB351 .C58 2003 940.1—de21 2002030316 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper For Ellen, Veronica, and Anna and Our Children g nad ep Oa, 2%. Fa i dCi, WD CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 1X INTRODUCTION Xill TIME LINE xxi PART 1 THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE MIDDLE AGES 1. The Bible 4 2. The Classical Heritage 23 3. Early Christianity 38 4. The Latin Fathers: Jerome and Augustine 60 PART 2 THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES 5. The Transition from Ancient to Medieval 90 6. Monasticism 129 7. The First Medieval Synthesis: The Carolingian World and Its Dissolution 143 PART 3 THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES AND BEYOND 8. Church, State, and Society 178 9. The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century 212 10. Francis of Assisi and the Mendicants 238 11. The Fourteenth Century 257 Notes 279 BIBLIOGRAPHY 289 INDEX 315 vii ee anion. a ron, Salar ee md nT ae pacone aur teN owrAaisos er crane ie Mee te ~~ : ne hal A a : é is ¢ ee se ee a SBeise “wavefee onea es neev a: t P; AeFlnr ana ioan e : cy, i‘ oe *
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