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The medieval experience : foundations of Western cultural singularity / Francis Oakley.

By: Series: Medieval Academy reprints for teaching ; 23Publication details: Toronto, Canada ; Buffalo, NY : University of Toronto Press in association with the Medieval Academy of America, c1988.Description: ix, 228 p. : maps ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780802067074 (pbk.) :
  • 0802067077 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • CB351 .O24 1988
Contents:
Space and time -- The shape of medieval history -- The heirs of Rome: Byzantium, Islam, Western Europe -- the first Europe and its confines: the fifth to tenth centuries -- Medieval Europe at its height: the eleventh to thirteenth centuries -- The rime of troubles: the fouteenth and fifteenth centuries -- Church and sect -- the role of medieval Christianity -- The early church and the Constantinian revolution -- St. Augustine and the doctinal foundations of Sacerdotalism -- The church and the world -- Making and doing -- The nature of the medieval economic life -- Economic contraction in the early Middle Ages -- Agricutlural revolution and population boom -- The commercial revolution of the high middle ages -- The dynamism of the medieval economy -- Subject and citizen -- The import of medieval politics -- Kingship and the gods -- The feudal contribution -- Romano-canonical law, representation, and consent -- Reason and faith -- The direction of the medieval intellectual life -- Reason and revelation -- God, philosophy, and science -- Passion and society -- The texture of medieval sentiment -- the love of God -- the love of man -- the status of woman -- the love of woman.
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Books Books American University in Dubai American University in Dubai Main Collection CB 351 .O24 1988 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 600176

Originally published: New York : Scribner, 1974.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-222) and index.

Space and time -- The shape of medieval history -- The heirs of Rome: Byzantium, Islam, Western Europe -- the first Europe and its confines: the fifth to tenth centuries -- Medieval Europe at its height: the eleventh to thirteenth centuries -- The rime of troubles: the fouteenth and fifteenth centuries -- Church and sect -- the role of medieval Christianity -- The early church and the Constantinian revolution -- St. Augustine and the doctinal foundations of Sacerdotalism -- The church and the world -- Making and doing -- The nature of the medieval economic life -- Economic contraction in the early Middle Ages -- Agricutlural revolution and population boom -- The commercial revolution of the high middle ages -- The dynamism of the medieval economy -- Subject and citizen -- The import of medieval politics -- Kingship and the gods -- The feudal contribution -- Romano-canonical law, representation, and consent -- Reason and faith -- The direction of the medieval intellectual life -- Reason and revelation -- God, philosophy, and science -- Passion and society -- The texture of medieval sentiment -- the love of God -- the love of man -- the status of woman -- the love of woman.

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