| Contents |
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| Preface to the second edition |
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| Preface |
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| Note on references |
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| Part One: The antique heritage |
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| 1. Platonism in the ancient world |
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| Plato |
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| From Platonism to Neoplatonism |
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| Plotinus, Porphyry and Latin Neoplatonism |
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| 2. Neoplatonism and the Church Fathers |
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| Augustine's treatment of pagan philosophy |
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| The Greek Christian Platonists |
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| Iamblichus, Proclus and the psendo-Dionysins |
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| 3. The antique logical tradition |
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| Aristotle |
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| Logic in late antiquity |
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| 4. Boethius |
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| The teatises on the arts |
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| The logical works |
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| The Opuscula sacra |
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| The Consolation of Philosophy |
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| Part Two: The beginnings of medieval philosophy |
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| 5. The earliest medieval philosophers |
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| From Cassiodorus to Alcuin |
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| The circle of Alcuin |
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| 6. Philosophy in the age of John Scottus Eriugena |
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| Ratrammus of Corbie and Macarius the Irishman |
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| John Scottus and the controversy on predestination |
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| John Scottus and the Greeks |
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| The Periphyseon |
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| 7. The aftermath of Eriugena: philosophy at the end of the ninth and the geginning of the tenth century |
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| The influence of Eriugena |
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| The tranditions of glosses to school texts |
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| Reinigius of Auxerre |
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| 8. Logic and scholarship in the tenth and earlier eleventh cetury |
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| Tenth century logic |
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| Antique philosophy and the Christian scholar |
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| 9. Logic and theology in the age of Anselm |
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| Dialectic and its place in thology |
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| Anselm |
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| Anselm's pupils and influence |
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| Logic and grammar at the end of the eleventh century |
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| Part Three: 1100-50 |
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| 10. Masters and schools |
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| 11. The antique philosophical tradition: |
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| scholarship, science and poetry |
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| William of Conches |
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| Minor cosniological works |
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| Bernard Silvestris |
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| 12. Grammar and logic |
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| Grammar |
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| Logic |
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| Abelard's philosophy of logic |
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| 13. Theology |
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| The varieties of theology |
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| The 'Opuscula sacra' |
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| Gilbert of Poitiers |
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| 14. Abelard and the beginning of medieval ethics |
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| Abbreviations |
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| Bibliography |
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| Primary works |
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| Secondary works |
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| Additional bibliography and notes |
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| Index |
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