Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 400-1400, Marcia Colish's 1997 survey from Yale University Press, is a widely used scholarly synthesis of eight centuries of intellectual development by a specialist who has published extensively on the period's individual figures. Its strength is that broad, synthetic coverage from real specialist standing. Its limit is that, as a survey spanning centuries, any single topic within it is necessarily treated briefly; follow the book's own references for depth on one figure or school.
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Marcia Colish's Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 400-1400, published by Yale University Press in 1997, the top tier reflecting a widely used scholarly synthesis of eight centuries of intellectual development by a specialist who has published extensively on the period's individual figures. Its limit is that, as a survey spanning centuries, any single topic within it is necessarily treated briefly; follow the book's own references for depth on one figure or school. NotesScholarly survey of medieval Western intellectual history, 400 to 1400, Yale University Press, 1997.
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AuthorMarcia L. Colish
PublisherYale University Press
Publication Year1997
Source Typeacademic monograph
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