Medieval Thought and Learning – Reginald Lane Poole (1920)

S$48.00

Medieval Thought and Learning – Reginald Lane Poole (1920)

S$48.00

Title: Illustrations of the History of Medieval Thought and Learning

Author: Reginald Lane Poole

Publisher: SPCK, London, 1920. Second edition.

Condition: Hardcover, good. Pencil inscriptions to ffep, no other markings. 327pp including index. 8.5 x 5.5 inches.

Contents:

  1. Introduction
  2. Claudius of Turin and Agobard of Lyons
  3. John Scotus
  4. The Dark Age
  5. The School of Chartres
  6. Peter Abailard
  7. The Trial of Gilbert of La Porree
  8. John of Salisbury
  9. The Hierarchical Doctrine of the State
  10. The Opposition to the Temporal Claims of the Papacy
  11. Wycliffe’s Doctrine of Dominion
  12. Appendix

About the author (from Wikipedia):

Reginald Lane Poole (1857–1939) was a British historian. He was Keeper of the Archives and a lecturer in diplomacy at the University of Oxford, where he gave the Ford Lectures in 1912 on the subject of “The Exchequer in the Twelfth Century”. Son of Edward Stanley Poole, the “Lane” in his surname comes from his paternal grandmother Sophia Lane Poole, author of An Englishwoman in Egypt (1844). Father of Austin Lane Poole (1889–1963), also a historian and Ford’s Lecturer. Brother of Stanley Lane-Poole, nephew of Reginald Stuart Poole, great-nephew of Edward William Lane.