Heretics and scholars in the High Middle Ages, 1000-1200
By: Heinrich Fichtenau ; translated by Denise A. Kaiser.
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 403
Subjects: Heresies, Christian -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500; Rationalism -- History; Europe -- Church history -- 600-1500
Description: "The struggle over fundamental issues erupted with great fury in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. In this book, preeminent medievalist Heinrich Fichtenau turns his attention to a new attitude that emerged in Western Europe around the year 1000. This new attitude was exhibited both in the rise of heresy in the general population and in the self-confident rationality of the nascent schools. With his characteristic learning and insight, Fichtenau shows how these two separate intellectual phenomena contributed to a medieval world that was never quite as uniform as might appear from our modern perspective." "First published in German in 1991, Heretics and Scholars in the High Middle Ages continues a grand tradition of scholarship on the intellectual history of the Middle Ages."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-389) and index.