Mind Matters: Studies of Medieval and Early Modern Intellectual History in Honour of Marcia Colish, ed. Cary J. Nederman, Nancy van Deusen and E. Ann Matter
Mary Carruthers
Marcia Colish’s influential scholarship is well honoured by this collection of thirteen essays. Her The Mirror Language (1968 and 1983; rev. ante, lxxxvi [1971], 161–2) profoundly influenced on medieval language theory, not only among historians but students literatures semiology. Medieval Foundations the Western Intellectual Tradition, 400–1400 (1997; cxiv [1999], 664–5) presented a magisterial survey, both individuals topics, that looked ahead to early modern debates in ways invited us see them as continuities late ideas rather than sharp breaks with past. In between came her generous studies antique Stoic tradition, Peter Lombard, Abelard, Anselm, other twelfth-century philosophers. These form nucleus for all essays collected volume, which reflects intellectual foci publications their broad chronological geographical sweep well.
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