Table of Contents

Preface; Contributors; List of abbreviations; Introduction Peter Dronke; Part I. Background: 1. Philosophy, cosmology, and the twelfth-century Renaissance Winthrop Wetherbee; 2. The platonic inheritance Tullio Gregory; 3. The Stoic inheritance Michael Lapidge; 4. The Arabic inheritance Jean Jolivet; Part II. New Perspectives: 5. Scientific speculations Charles Burnett; 6. Speculative grammar Karin Margareta Fredborg; 7. Logic (i): from the late eleventh century ot the time of Abelard Martin M. Tweedale; 8. Logic (ii): the later twelfth century Klaus Jacobi; Part III. Innovators: 9. Anselm of Canterbury Stephen Gersh; 10. Peter Abelard D. E. Luscombe; 11. William of Conches Dorothy Elford; 12. Gilbert of Poitiers a note on the Porretani John Marenbon; 13. Thierry of Chartres Peter Dronke; 14. Hermann of Carinthia Charles Burnett; Part IV. The Entry of the 'New' Aristotle: 15. Aristotelian thought in Salerno Danielle Jacquart; 16. David of Dinant and the beginnings of Aristoteliansim in Paris Enzo Maccagnolo; Bio-biographies; General bibliography; Index of manuscripts; General index.

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'This is a particularly well-produced collection of meticulously researched papers on central aspects of philosophy in 12th-century western Europe ... As a model of accessibility to non-specialists its appearance is especially welcome at a time when philistine charges of irelevance are increasingly being made against disinterested scholarship.' Times Higher Education Supplement 'All of the essays are of high quality and offer excellent introductions to the textual sources. Taken together they reveal a complementarity rare in collections of this kind.' History of European Ideas '[A History of Twelfth-Century Western Philosophy] belongs not only in all college and university libraries but also in the private libraries of all serious medievalists.' Speculum