# The Mediaeval Mind

THE
MEDIAEVAL MIND
A HISTORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THOUGHT AND EMOTION IN THE MIDDLE AGES
BY
HENRY OSBORN TAYLOR
IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. I
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CONTENTS
BOOK I
THE GROUNDWORK
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
       I. Irish Activities; Columbanus of Luxeuil.
       II. Conversion of the English; the learning of Bede and Alfred.
       III. Gaul and Germany; from Clovis to St. Winifried-Boniface.
BOOK II
THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
       I. From Charlemagne to Hildebrand.
       II. The Human Situation.
       III. The Italian Continuity of Antique Culture.
       IV. Italy's Intellectual Piety: Peter Damiani and St. Anselm.
CHAPTER XII
       I. Gerbert
       II. Odilo of Cluny.
       III. Fulbert and the School of Chartres; Trivium and Quadrivium.
       IV. Berengar of Tours, Roscellin, and the coming time.
CHAPTER XIII
       I. German Appropriation of Christianity and Antique Culture.
       II. Othloh's Spiritual Conflict.
       III. England; Closing Comparisons.
CHAPTER XIV
       I. The Patristic Chart of Passion.
       II. Emotionalizing of Latin Christianity.
BOOK III
THE IDEAL AND THE ACTUAL: THE SAINTS
CHAPTER XV
       Mediaeval Extremes; Benedict of Aniane; Cluny; Citeaux's Charta Charitatis; the vita contemplativa accepts the vita activa.
CHAPTER XVI
       Peter Damiani; Romuald; Dominicus Loricatus; Bruno and Guigo, Carthusians.
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
       Elizabeth of Schönau; Hildegard of Bingen; Mary of Ognies; Liutgard of Tongern; Mechthild of Magdeburg.
CHAPTER XX
       The Testimony of Invective and Satire; Archbishop Rigaud's Register; Engelbert of Cologne; Popular Credences.
CHAPTER XXI
BOOK IV
THE IDEAL AND THE ACTUAL: SOCIETY
CHAPTER XXII
       Feudal and Christian Origin of Knightly Virtue; the Order of the Temple; Godfrey of Bouillon; St. Louis; Froissart's Chronicles.
CHAPTER XXIII
       From Roland to Tristan and Lancelot.
CHAPTER XXIV
CHAPTER XXV
CHAPTER XXVI
BOOK V
SYMBOLISM
CHAPTER XXVII
CHAPTER XXVIII
CHAPTER XXIX
       I. Guilelmus Durandus and Vincent of Beauvais.
       II. The Hymns of Adam of St. Victor and the Anticlaudianus of Alanus of Lille.
BOOK VI
LATINITY AND LAW
CHAPTER XXX
       I. Classical Reading.
       II. Grammar.
       III. The Effect upon the Mediaeval Man; Hildebert of Lavardin.
CHAPTER XXXI
CHAPTER XXXII
       I. Metrical Verse.
       II. Substitution of Accent for Quantity.
       III. Sequence-Hymn and Student-Song.
       IV. Passage of Themes into the Vernacular.
CHAPTER XXXIII
       I. The Fontes Juris Civilis.
       II. Roman and Barbarian Codification.
       III. The Mediaeval Appropriation.
       IV. Church Law.
       V. Political Theorizing.
BOOK VII
ULTIMATE INTELLECTUAL INTERESTS OF THE TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH CENTURIES
CHAPTER XXXIV
CHAPTER XXXV
       I. Philosophic Classification of the Sciences; the Arrangement of Vincent's Encyclopaedia, of the Lombard's Sentences, of Aquinas's Summa theologiae.
       II. The Stages of Development: Grammar, Logic, Meta-logics.
CHAPTER XXXVI
       I. The Problem of Universals: Abaelard.
       II. The Mystic Strain: Hugo and Bernard.
       III. The Later Decades: Bernard Silvestris; Gilbert de la Porrée; William of Conches; John of Salisbury, and Alanus of Lille.
CHAPTER XXXVII
CHAPTER XXXVIII
CHAPTER XXXIX
CHAPTER XL
       I. Thomas's Conception of Human Beatitude.
       II. Man's Capacity to know God.
       III. How God knows.
       IV. How the Angels know.
       V. How Men know.
       VI. Knowledge through Faith perfected in Love.
CHAPTER XLI
CHAPTER XLII
CHAPTER XLIII
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