Fifty Key Medieval Thinkers

Fifty Key Medieval Thinkers
Author: Gillian Rosemary Evans
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2002
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0415236622

Focusing on individuals whose ideas shaped intellectual life between 400 and 1500, this book is an accessible guide to those religious, philosophical and political concepts central to the medieval worldview.

Fifty Key Medieval Thinkers

Fifty Key Medieval Thinkers
Author: G.R. Evans
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2002-09-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134561792

Focussing on individuals whose ideas shaped intellectual life between 400 and 1500, Fifty Key Medieval Thinkers is an accessible introduction to those religious, philosophical and political concepts central to the medieval worldview. Including such diverse figures as Bede and Wyclif, each entry presents a biographical outline, a list of works and a summary of their main theories, alongside suggestions for further reading. Chronologically arranged, and with an introductory essay which presents important themes in context, this volume is an invaluable reference tool for all students of Medieval Europe.

Fifty Key Medieval Thinkers

Fifty Key Medieval Thinkers
Author: Gillian Rosemary Evans
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2002
Genre: Philosophers, Medieval
ISBN: 9780415236638

Focusing on individuals whose ideas shaped intellectual life between 400 and 1500, this book is an accessible guide to those religious, philosophical and political concepts central to the medieval worldview.

Fifty Key Christian Thinkers

Fifty Key Christian Thinkers
Author: Peter McEnhill
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0415170494

Fifty Key Christian Thinkersprovides both valuable information and stimulating debate on the lives and work of fifty of the most important Christian theologians. This guide provides an overview of Christian theology from the emergence of the faith 2000 years ago to the present day. Among the figures profiled in this accessible guide are: * St Paul * Barth * Aquinas * Boethius * Niebuhr * Calvin * Luther * Feuerbach * Kierkegaard * Origen

Fifty Key Thinkers on History

Fifty Key Thinkers on History
Author: Marnie Hughes-Warrington
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2014-09-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134482531

Fifty Key Thinkers on History is an essential guide to the most influential historians, theorists and philosophers of history. The entries offer comprehensive coverage of the long history of historiography ranging from ancient China, Greece and Rome, through the Middle Ages to the contemporary world. This third edition has been updated throughout and features new entries on Machiavelli, Ranajit Guha, William McNeil and Niall Ferguson. Other thinkers who are introduced include: Herodotus Bede Ibn Khaldun E. H. Carr Fernand Braudel Eric Hobsbawm Michel Foucault Edward Gibbon Each clear and concise essay offers a brief biographical introduction; a summary and discussion of each thinker’s approach to history and how others have engaged with it; a list of their major works and a list of resources for further study.

Fifty Key Jewish Thinkers

Fifty Key Jewish Thinkers
Author: Dan Cohn-Sherbok
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2013-01-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1134799993

This popular Key Guide provides an overview of the broader intellectual currents of Jewish philosophy. It includes a chronological table and maps.

The University in Medieval Life, 1179-1499

The University in Medieval Life, 1179-1499
Author: Hunt Janin
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2014-01-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0786452013

The university is indigenous to Western Europe and is probably the greatest and most enduring achievement of the Middle Ages. Much more than stodgy institutions of learning, medieval universities were exciting arenas of people and ideas. They contributed greatly to the economic vitality of their host cities and served as birthplaces for some of the era's most effective minds, laws and discoveries. This survey traces the growth of the largest medieval universities of Bologna, Paris, and Oxford, along with the universities of Cambridge, Padua, Naples, Montpellier, Toulouse, Orleans, Angers, Prague, Vienna and Glasgow. Covering the years 1179-1499, this work discusses common traits of medieval universities, their major figures, and their roles in medieval life.

Dear Science and Other Stories

Dear Science and Other Stories
Author: Katherine McKittrick
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2020-12-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1478012579

In Dear Science and Other Stories Katherine McKittrick presents a creative and rigorous study of black and anticolonial methodologies. Drawing on black studies, studies of race, cultural geography, and black feminism as well as a mix of methods, citational practices, and theoretical frameworks, she positions black storytelling and stories as strategies of invention and collaboration. She analyzes a number of texts from intellectuals and artists ranging from Sylvia Wynter to the electronica band Drexciya to explore how narratives of imprecision and relationality interrupt knowledge systems that seek to observe, index, know, and discipline blackness. Throughout, McKittrick offers curiosity, wonder, citations, numbers, playlists, friendship, poetry, inquiry, song, grooves, and anticolonial chronologies as interdisciplinary codes that entwine with the academic form. Suggesting that black life and black livingness are, in themselves, rebellious methodologies, McKittrick imagines without totally disclosing the ways in which black intellectuals invent ways of living outside prevailing knowledge systems.

Judaism: The Basics

Judaism: The Basics
Author: Jacob Neusner
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2006-11-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1134144091

The oldest of the world’s major faiths, Judaism as practiced today represents a tradition that goes back nearly 6,000 years. Accessible and wide-ranging, Judaism: The Basics is a must-have resource covering the stories, beliefs and expressions of that tradition. Key topics covered include: the Torah Israel – the state and its people Passover Reform Judaism, Orthodox Judaism and Zionism the impact of the Holocaust. With a glossary of terms and extensive suggestions for further reading, Judaism: The Basics is an essential guide through the rich intricacies of the Jewish faith and people.

The Position of Magic in Selected Medieval Spanish Texts

The Position of Magic in Selected Medieval Spanish Texts
Author: Francis Tobienne
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2009-05-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1443811599

It is difficult to assess an explanation of a belief, or a belief system in words, Tobienne begins, and harder still to assign signification to such inexplicable conviction s]. This book addresses the often blurred line s] between magic, religion, and