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Title: The Wandering Scholars of the Middle Ages by Helen Waddell ISBN: 0-486-41436-1 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This book will live for ever
Comment: When I bought this book, I had some misgivings, because it was dated 1927, and I am always nervous about reading old books in unfamiliar areas - there might be some important discovery that completely changes the picture, and of which they are unaware. But I felt I needed it, because it covered a grievous gap in my own knowledge of one of my subjects - the state of culture, and its social organization, in the middle ages. And by the time I was turning the first page, I knew I'd struck gold. Gold? Diamonds! This is the sort of book that never grows old, because it is built on a most extraordinary knowledge of the relevant material - again and again, she quotes unpublished manuscripts and material in obscure German and Italian publications - joined with immense sympathy for people. a broad vision that sweeps over several centuries, an eye for the significant detail, and a delicious and humane sense of humour; it is a classic like Gibbon. I wonder whether GK Chesterton ever read it? He would have loved it. It is a wonderfully insightful picture of the intellectual life of the West over seven centuries (400-1200 AD), drawn entirely from contemporary documents. Therefore the view it presents may be modified by further discoveries, but cannot be disproved or contradicted, because it grows from the soil of real people's experience. I can't praise it enough.
Rating: 5
Summary: Appealing to holders of collections about Medieval studies
Comment: Wandering Scholars of the Middle Ages is the acclaimed study of a noted scholar which records the makers and singers of medieval Latin poetry and their traditions. Waddell's classic appears in a fine affordable edition which will appeal to holders of collections strong in Medieval studies.
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Title: Peter Abelard by Helen Jane Waddell ISBN: 0883472171 Publisher: Resources for Christian Living Pub. Date: 01 October, 1987 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Lost Love Letters of Heloise and Abelard: Perceptions of Dialogue in Twelfth-Century France by Constant J. Mews, Neville Chiavaroli ISBN: 0312239416 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Heloise and Abelard by E. Gilson ISBN: 0472060384 Publisher: University of Michigan Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1960 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Europe and the Faith by Hilaire Belloc ISBN: 089555464X Publisher: T A N Books & Publishers Pub. Date: October, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Most Beautiful Libraries in the World by Guillaume de Laubier, Jacques Bosser, James H. Billington, Laurel Hirsch (translator) ISBN: 0810946343 Publisher: Harry N Abrams Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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