Scholastic Humanism and the Unification of Europe

by Richard William Southern (Editor)

to produce a definitive body of knowledge that would be as perfect as humanity's fallen state permits, and which would provide a view of God, nature, and human conduct, promoting order in this world and blessedness in the next.

Genres: Philosophy

364 pages, Hardcover

First published September 13, 1995

About the author

Sir Richard William Southern was a noted English medieval historian, based at the University of Oxford. He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle, and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated with a first-class honours degree in history. At Oxford, Southern's mentors were Sir Maurice Powicke and Vivian Hunter Galbraith. He was a fellow of Balliol from 1937 to 1961 (where he lectured alongside Christopher Hill), Chichele Professor of Modern History at Oxford from 1961 to 1969, and president of St John's College, Oxford, from 1969 to 1981. He was president of the Royal Historical Society from 1969 to 1973, and was knighted in 1974.

Reviews

[Hobie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Two Books Two Days!!

Good presentation - reads like a dense story rather than purely scholarly (tehe, its a pun) text

[David Griffith · Rating 5 out of 5]

A masterpiece of historical inquiry and synthesis of detail to achieve a coherent view of the development of scholastic humanism, the inception of the great universities that have informed and lead the intellectual development of Europe's culture and its institutions.

[Roger · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another brilliant volume from my favorite Oxford don and the first of a proposed 3 volume magnum opus.

[Molly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Too much discussion of the School of Chartes, I think, which made the book lopsided. Otherwise it's a just tribute to the lofty idealism of medieval scholastic thought.