"The Great courses, Topic: Philosophy & intellectual history ; Subtopic: Medieval & religious philosopy"--Cover. "Course no. 4631"--Disc labels. 24 lectures lasting 30 minutes each. Accompanying CD-ROM contains course workbook in PDF format. Lecturer: Professor Dorsey Armstrong of Purdue University.
Contents:
Disc 1. Augustine of Hippo -- Ambrose, Jerome and Gregory the Great -- Disc 2. Boethius and the consolation of philosophy -- Isidore of Seville and the etymologies -- Disc 3. The venerable Bede -- Alcuin, Charlemagne, and Alfred the Great -- Disc 4. Avicenna and the Golden Age of Islam -- Alhacen and the scientific method -- Disc 5. Averroes and Aristotelian philosophy -- Maimonides and Jewish law -- Disc 6. Rashi and Biblical interpretation -- Saladin and the defeat of the Crusaders -- Disc 7. Hildegard of Bingen -- Bernard of Clairvaux -- Disc 8. Abelard and Héloïse -- Peter Lombard and the Sentences -- Disc 9. Thomas Aquinas -- William of Ockham and John Duns Scotus -- Disc 10. Geoffrey Chaucer and Dante Alighieri -- Francesco Petrarch -- Disc 11. Lorenzo de' Medici -- Christine de Pisan -- Disc 12. Sir Thomas Malory and Le morte d'Arthur -- William Caxton and the birth of printing.
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