Early Medieval Philosophy 480-1150 An Introduction

Preface Part One The antique heritage 1 Platonism in the ancient world; Plato; From Platonism to Neoplatonism; Plotinus, Porphyry and Latin Neoplatonism; 2 Neoplatonism and the Church Fathers; Augustine’s treatment of pagan philosophy; The Greek Christian Platonists; Iamblichus, Proclus and the pseudo-Dionysius 3 The antique logical tradition; Aristotle; Logic in late antiquity; 4 Boethius; The treatises on the arts; The logical works; The ‘Opuscula sacra’; The ‘Consolation of Philosophy’; Part Two The beginnings of medieval philosophy; 5 The earliest medieval philosophers; From Cassiodorus to Alcuin; The circle of Alcuin; 6 Philosophy in the age of John Scottus Eriugena; Ratramnus of Corbie and Macarius the Irishman; John Scottus and the controversy on Predestination; John Scottus and the Greeks; The Periphyseon; 7 The aftermath of Eriugena: philosophy at the end of the ninth and the beginning of the tenth century; The influence of Eriugena; The traditions of glosses to school texts; Remigius of Auxerre; 8 Logic and scholarship in the tenth and earlier eleventh century; Tenth-century logic; Antique philosophy and the Christian scholar; 9 Logic and theology in the age of Anselm; Dialectic and its place in theology; Anselm; Anselm’s pupils and influence; Logic and grammar at the end of the eleventh Century; Part Three 1100–50; 10 Masters and schools; 11 The antique philosophical tradition: scholarship, science and poetry; William of Conches; Minor cosmological works; Bernard Silvestris; 12 Grammar and logic; Grammar; Logic; Abelard’s philosophy of logic 13 Theology; The varieties of theology; The ‘Opuscula sacra’; Gilbert of Poitiers 14 Abelard and the beginnings of medieval ethics

Biography

John Marenbon is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Born in London, he was educated at Westeminster School and at Trinity College. He is the author of From the Circle of Alcuin to the School of Auxerre (Cambridge University Press, 1981) and Later Medieval Philosophy (1150–1350), (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987).