Chapter I: Front Matter

THE RATIONALE OF THE VISIBLE WORLD: HUGO OF ST. VICTOR 60

CHAPTER XXIX

CATHEDRAL AND MASS; HYMN AND IMAGINATIVE POEM 76

I. Guilelmus Durandus and Vincent of Beauvais.

II. The Hymns of Adam of St. Victor and the _Anticlaudianus_
of Alanus of Lille.

BOOK VI

LATINITY AND LAW

CHAPTER XXX

THE SPELL OF THE CLASSICS 107

I. Classical Reading.

II. Grammar.

III. The Effect upon the Mediaeval Man; Hildebert of Lavardin.

CHAPTER XXXI

EVOLUTION OF MEDIAEVAL LATIN PROSE 148

CHAPTER XXXII

EVOLUTION OF MEDIAEVAL LATIN VERSE 186

I. Metrical Verse.

II. Substitution of Accent for Quantity.

III. Sequence-Hymn and Student-Song.

IV. Passage of Themes into the Vernacular.

CHAPTER XXXIII

MEDIAEVAL APPROPRIATION OF THE ROMAN LAW 231

I. The Fontes Juris Civilis.

II. Roman and Barbarian Codification.

III. The Mediaeval Appropriation.

IV. Church Law.

V. Political Theorizing.

BOOK VII

ULTIMATE INTELLECTUAL INTERESTS OF THE TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH CENTURIES

CHAPTER XXXIV

SCHOLASTICISM: SPIRIT, SCOPE, AND METHOD 283

CHAPTER XXXV

CLASSIFICATION OF TOPICS; STAGES OF EVOLUTION 311

I. Philosophic Classification of the Sciences; the
Arrangement of Vincent’s Encyclopaedia, of the Lombard’s
_Sentences_, of Aquinas’s _Summa theologiae_.

II. The Stages of Development: Grammar, Logic, Metalogics.

CHAPTER XXXVI

TWELFTH-CENTURY SCHOLASTICISM 338

I. The Problem of Universals: Abaelard.

II. The Mystic Strain: Hugo and Bernard.

III. The Later Decades: Bernard Silvestris; Gilbert de la
Porrée; William of Conches; John of Salisbury, and Alanus
of Lille.

CHAPTER XXXVII

THE UNIVERSITIES, ARISTOTLE, AND THE MENDICANTS 378

CHAPTER XXXVIII

BONAVENTURA 402

CHAPTER XXXIX

ALBERTUS MAGNUS 420

CHAPTER XL

THOMAS AQUINAS 433

I. Thomas’s Conception of Human Beatitude.

II. Man’s Capacity to know God.

III. How God knows.

IV. How the Angels know.

V. How Men know.

VI. Knowledge through Faith perfected in Love.

CHAPTER XLI

ROGER BACON 484

CHAPTER XLII

DUNS SCOTUS AND OCCAM 509

CHAPTER XLIII

THE MEDIAEVAL SYNTHESIS: DANTE 525

INDEX 561