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Marcia L. Colish is Frederick B. Artz Professor of History, emerita, at Oberlin College and visiting fellow in history at Yale University.

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Colish's examination of medieval thought is simply and definitively comprehensive. Dense and often foreboding, the text surveys the evolution of theology, literature, philosophy, political theory and economics throughout Europe from the Fifth through the Fifteenth Centuries. The effect of Islamic and Byzantine scholarship on Latin Europe is especially fecund. Averroes shines in those sections.

Correspondingly the traditional plaudits afforded to Augustine, Benedict, Anselm, Bernard, William of Ockham and Thomas Aquinas are reinforced with solemn scholarship. As noted there is considerable overlap with my previous reading of R.W. Southern. Aside from such, this is an excellent introduction to Intellectual History of the Middle Ages. This is not a positivist account, setbacks in various disciplines are announced as such without undue recrimination.

I benefited as well from the lush bibliography at the book's conclusion.
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