Fools and idiots? : intellectual disability in the Middle Ages / by Metzler, Irina, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…; Contents ; List of Figures ; Series editors' foreword ; Acknowledgements ; List of Abbreviations ; 1: Pre-/conceptions: problems of definition and historiography; 2: From morio to fool: semantics of intellectual disability ; 3: Cold complexions and moist humors: natural science and intellectual disability ; 4: The infantile and the irrational: mind, soul and intellectual disability ; 5: Non-consenting adults: laws and intellectual disability ; 6: Fools, pets and entertainers: socio-cultural considerations of intellectual disability.…”
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God, cosmos, and humankind : the world of early Christian symbolism / by Ladner, Gerhart B. 1905-1993

Table of Contents: “…The Incarnation -- The Death, Resurrection, and Ascension of Christ -- The Holy Spirit and the Trinity -- Mary -- Virgin and Mother of God -- Eschatology According to the New Testament and the Sibylline Oracles -- Creation Symbolism from the Bank of Genesis to Augustine -- Symbolism of the Divine Unity and of the Hierarchies in Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite -- Symbolism of the Cosmos and of Numbers -- Late-Antique and Early-Christian Nature-Symbolism and Natural Science -- The Symbolism of the New Man in the Gospels -- The Symbolism of the New Man in the Apostolic and Patristic periods -- The Christian Roman Empire in Relationship to the Kingdom of God -- Church, Liturgy, and Sacraments -- The Symbolism of the Word and the Name, the Etymologies of Isidore of Seville -- The Fourfold Meaning of Holy Scripture, Miracles, and Signs, Primarily According to Gregory the Great.…”

Medieval foundations of the western intellectual tradition, 400-1400 / by Colish, Marcia L.

Table of Contents: “…The legacy of scholasticism. The natural sciences: reception and criticism ; Economic theory: poverty, the just price, and usury ; Political theory: Regnum and Sacerdotum, conciliarism, feudal monarchy.…”
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Secular learning in Anglo-Saxon England : exploring the vernacular /

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