The Evolution of Medieval Thought

Baltimore: Helicon Press, 1962. Hardcover. Good +/Good +. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". ix, 356pp. Creasing, rubbing, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Chipping and creasing along edges of jacket. Rubbing along spine edge and edges of jacket front. Rubbing to front of jacket. Mild toning and rubbing to rear of jacket. Small open tears top and bottoms edges of jacket rear. Creasing and chipping to head and tail of jacket spine. Age-toning and creasing to inside flap and jacket interior. Bound in gray paper over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Toning and rubbing to front and rear boards. Gentle bumps to head and tail (truncated) of spine. Dust-spotting to text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound.

ABOUT THIS BOOK:
One of the many merits of this book is that it places Western scholasticism in its setting--and this both in space and in time. Plotinus lives on, Aristotle comes back to life again, Averroes breaks in--but this is not the right word, for this Muslim philosopher and his Western Christian disciples are inmates of the same house. Professor Knowles brings out the unity of Islamic and Western Christian culture. Medieval Islam and Western Christendom had a common mental heritage of Jewish religion and Greek philosophy; both were stimulated intellectually by a tension between the Judaic and the Hellenic pole of their thought; and the same stimulus led thinkers in both provinces of this Judaistic-Hellenistic Christian-Muslim world to interest themselves in the same problems.(Publisher). (Inventory #: 16883)