{"product_id":"pagans-and-philosophers-9780691176086","title":"Pagans and Philosophers","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015 \"[An] excellent book... If Marenbon leaves a stone unturned ... I didn't notice it... [He] builds a powerful case.\"--Peter Adamson, Times Literary Supplement \"Fascinating ... Marenbon constantly cuts across the standard discussions at a fresh angle, bringing new connections to light.\"---Noel Malcolm, Standpoint \"This reviewer has been waiting for this book for a long time... [Pagans and Philosophers] is fascinating, exciting, compelling, and well worth the wait.\"--Choice \"Overall this is a magnificent study in the history of ideas, executed with great lucidity and exemplary scholarship.\"--John Cottingham, The Tablet \"Beautifully written, highly interesting (never dry or dull), and deserves a wide readership. It is enthusiastically recommended.\"--Carole M. Cusack, Speculum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface ix  A Note on References and Citations xi  Introduction: The Problem of Paganism 1  Part I: The Problem Takes Shape  Chapter 1 Prelude: Before Augustine 19  Chapter 2 Augustine 23  Chapter 3 Boethius 42  Part II: From Alcuin to Langland  Chapter 4 The Early Middle Ages and the Christianization of Europe 57  Chapter 5 Abelard 73  Chapter 6 John of Salisbury and the Encyclopaedic Tradition 95  Chapter 7 Arabi, Mongolia and Beyond: Contemporary Pagans in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries 109  Chapter 8 Aristotelian Wisdom: Unity, Rejection or Relativism 127  Chapter 9 University Theologians on Pagan Virtue and Salvation 160  Chapter 10 Dante and Boccaccio 188  Chapter 11 Langland and Chaucer 214  Part III: The Continuity of the Problem of Paganism, 1400-1700  Chapter 12 Pagan Knowledge, 1400-1700 235  Chapter 13 Pagan Virtue, 1400-1700 263  Chapter 14 The Salvation of Pagans, 1400-1700 281  Epilogue: Leibniz and China 301  General Conclusion 304  Bibliography 307  Index 339","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403846230359,"sku":"9780691176086","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691176086.jpg?v=1730484703","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/pagans-and-philosophers-9780691176086","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}