Heretics and Scholars in the High Middle Ages, 1000–1200

By Heinrich Fichtenau

Book Overview

The struggle over fundamental issues erupted with great fury in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. In this book preeminent medievalist Heinrich Fichtenau turns his attention to a new attitude that emerged in Western Europe around the year 1000. This new attitude was exhibited both in the rise of heresy in the general population and in the self-confident rationality of the nascent schools. With his characteristic learning and insight, Fichtenau shows how these two separate intellectual phenomena contributed to a medieval world that was never quite as uniform as might appear from our modern perspective.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271017651
• ISBN13: 9780271017655
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.1" x 6.0"