TY - BOOK AU - Oakley,Francis TI - The medieval experience: foundations of Western cultural singularity SN - 9780802067074 (pbk.) : AV - CB351 .O24 1988 PY - 1988/// CY - Toronto, Canada, Buffalo, NY PB - University of Toronto Press in association with the Medieval Academy of America KW - Civilization, Medieval KW - Middle Ages N1 - 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 ER -