William Courtenay provides a comprehensive account of educational structure and intellectual life in fourteenth-century England. Arguing that the two decades between 1320 and 1340 merit recognition as a golden age of English scholasticism, he examines the achievements of this period, their origins, and their adoption throughout continental Europe. He depicts an institutional setting, centered on Oxford but including cathedral and mendicant schools elsewhere, that rewarded not slavish obedience to school traditions but ...
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William Courtenay provides a comprehensive account of educational structure and intellectual life in fourteenth-century England. Arguing that the two decades between 1320 and 1340 merit recognition as a golden age of English scholasticism, he examines the achievements of this period, their origins, and their adoption throughout continental Europe. He depicts an institutional setting, centered on Oxford but including cathedral and mendicant schools elsewhere, that rewarded not slavish obedience to school traditions but innovations in logic, mathematics, physics, and theology. He then analyzes the second half of the century, when thinkers like Wyclif moved toward more evangelical writing, when law outstripped theology in popularity at Oxford, and when courtly society replaced the schools as the major influence on English culture. Anticipating aspects of the sixteenth century, England after 1360 experienced an increase in lay literacy and a wider audience for biblical study, sermons, devotional treatises, and vernacular literature. The scope of Professor Courtenay's study of this transition from the world of Ockham to the world of Chaucer makes it of interest not only as a contribution to late medieval intellectual history but also as background for the study of Middle English literature.
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Very good in very good jacket. Brown cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, not illustrated. Book has rubbing and faint soil to boards and spine, binding tight, text clean and unmarked, with faint foxing to edges of block, basement odor. DJ gently edgeworn and rubbed.
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Good. 1987. Hardcover. CXloth, dj. Octavo. Moderate shelf wear to dust jacket. Bookplate to front pastedown. A few margin notes to text. Altogether a copy in Good condition. Good. (Subject: Medieval, Britain & Ireland).
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Near fine in Very good+ jacket. Brown cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book has touch of sun to spine foot, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ gently toned, mild edgewear, now in archival mylar wrap.
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Book. Large Octavo, xix, 435 pages; VG-/VG-; Beige and illustrated spine, with teal and black lettering; Dustjacket has light toning along spine, with light shelfwear overall; Boards show light bumping to tail of spine; Textblock has minimal shelfwear to bottom edge. RWO. 1354921. Special Collections.