Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Philosophy seated between the seven liberal arts; picture from the Hortus deliciarum of Herrad von Landsberg (12th century).. Medieval philosophy is the philosophy that existed through the Middle Ages, the period roughly extending from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century until after the Renaissance in the 13th and 14th centuries. [1]
God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science is a 2009 book written by British historian of science James Hannam (UK: Icon Books). The book challenges the view that "there was no science worth mentioning in the Middle Ages … [and] that the Church held back what meagre advances were made". [1]
This is a list of philosophers and other scholars, historians and preachers – very much overlapping activities – working in the Christian tradition in Western Europe during the medieval period, including the early Middle Ages. See also scholasticism
The Middle Ages in art: a Pre-Raphaelite painting of a knight and a mythical seductress, the lamia (Lamia by John William Waterhouse, 1905). Medievalism is a system of belief and practice inspired by the Middle Ages of Europe, or by devotion to elements of that period, which have been expressed in areas such as architecture, literature, music, art, philosophy, scholarship, and various vehicles ...
Philosopher Johann Beukes has suggested that from 1349 to 1464, the era between the deaths of William of Ockham and Nicholas of Cusa, there was a distinct period characterized by "robust and independent philosophers" who departed from high scholasticism on issues such as institutional criticism and materialism but retained scholasticism's method.
Even as the Middle Ages become increasingly well documented; historians increasingly focus on writing literature addressing some of the primary misconceptions about medieval history; [2] [3] and other historians take the alternative approach of highlighting many of the intellectual, scientific, and technological advances that took place during ...
العربية; Azərbaycanca; বাংলা; Башҡортса; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) भोजपुरी
William D. Carpe in Church History saw the book as an antidote to the belief that the Middle Ages were a period of ignorance and barbarism, sufficient in itself as a history of the period, but also a primer that enables the reader to pursue a more detailed study of any subject or period of the Middle Ages. [6]