The closing of the Western mind : the rise of faith and the fall of reason / Charles Freeman.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : A.A. Knopf, 2003.Edition: 1st American edDescription: xxiii, 432 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cmISBN:- 140004085X
- Civilization, Western
- Christianity -- Influence
- Church and state -- Europe -- History
- Church history -- Early church, ca. 30-600
- Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
- Civilization, Western -- Classical influences
- Hellenism
- Europe -- History -- To 476
- Europe -- History -- 476-1492
- Europe -- Intellectual life
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-416) and index.
Thomas Aquinas and "the triumph of faith" -- The quest for certainty -- The quest for virtue -- Changing political contexts : Alexander and the coming of the Hellenistic monarchies -- Absorbing the East, Rome and the integration of Greek culture -- "All nations look to the majesty of Rome" : the Roman empire at its height -- The empire in crisis, the empire in recovery : political transformations in the third century -- Jesus -- Paul, "the founder of Christianity"? -- "A crowd that lurks in corners, shunning light" : the first Christian communities -- Constantine and the coming of the Christian state -- "But what I wish, that must be canon" : emperors and the making of Christian doctrine -- "Enriched by the gifts of matrons" : bishops and society in the fourth century -- Six emperors and a bishop : Ambrose of Milan -- Interlude : Quintus Aurelius Symmachus and the defence of paganism -- The ascetic odyssey -- Eastern Christianity and the emergence of the Byzantine Empire, 395-600 -- The emergence of Catholic Christianity in the West, 395-640 -- "We honour the privilege of silence which is without peril" : the death of the Greek empirical tradition -- Thomas Aquinas and the restoration of reason.