Humanism and Scholasticism in Late Medieval Germany

by James Overfield

Book Overview

This analysis of the intellectual life of German universities in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries demonstrates that humanist-scholastic relations were not the titanic struggles depicted in the humanists' own arguments or the many modern chronicles. Eschewing neat but misleading dichotomies, the author describes the German humanists' critique of scholasticism from the 1450s to the 1510s and the scholastics' response. He traces the reception...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691655332
• ISBN13: 9780691655338
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"