BOOK COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 THE ROOTS OF MEDIEVAL -- HISTORICAL BACKGROUND -- ANCIENT PRECURSORS OF MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY -- BOETHIUS -- PSEUDO-DIONYSIUS -- CHAPTER 2 THE EARLY MEDIEVAL PERIOD -- OVERVIEW OF EARLY MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY -- JOHN SCOTUS ERIGENA -- BERENGAR OF TOURS -- SAINT PETER DAMIAN -- EARLY LIFE AND CAREER -- ASSESSMENT -- SAINT ANSELM OF CANTERBURY -- EARLY LIFE AND CAREER -- THE ONTOLOGICAL ARGUMENT -- APPOINTMENT AS ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY -- THE SATISFACTION THEORY OF REDEMPTION -- ROSCELIN -- WILLIAM OF CHAMPEAUX -- PETER ABELARD -- EARLY LIFE -- CAREER AS A MONK -- FINAL YEARS -- WILLIAM OF SAINT-THIERRY -- SAINT BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX -- EARLY LIFE AND CAREER -- FOUNDER AND ABBOT OF CLAIRVAUX -- PILLAR OF THE CHURCH -- SAINT HILDEGARD -- ISAAC OF STELLA -- PETER LOMBARD -- THIERRY OF CHARTRES -- WILLIAM OF CONCHES -- GERARD OF CREMONA -- JOHN OF SALISBURY -- GODFREY OF SAINT-VICTOR -- JOACHIM OF FIORE -- HUGH OF SAINT-VICTOR -- WILLIAM OF AUXERRE -- RICHARD OF SAINT-VICTOR -- CHAPTER 3 ARABIC AND JEWISH THOUGHT -- AVICENNA -- LIFE -- THE "ORIENTAL PHILOSOPHY" -- DISTINCTION BETWEEN ESSENCE AND EXISTENCE AND THE DOCTRINE OF CREATION -- THE IMMORTALITY OF INDIVIDUAL SOULS -- PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION, AND MYSTICISM -- AVICENNA'S INFLUENCE -- AL-GHAZALI -- AVERROËS -- EARLY LIFE -- COMMENTARIES ON ARISTOTLE -- AVERROËS' DEFENSE OF PHILOSOPHY -- CONTENTS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF WORKS -- IBN GABIROL -- POETRY -- PHILOSOPHY -- MOSES MAIMONIDES -- LIFE -- WORKS -- SIGNIFICANCE -- CHAPTER 4 THE AGE OF THE SCHOOLMEN -- THE NATURE OF SCHOLASTIC PHILOSOPHY -- THE MATURITY OF SCHOLASTICISM -- ALEXANDER OF HALES -- ROBERT GROSSETESTE -- WILLIAM OF AUVERGNE -- SAINT ALBERTUS MAGNUS -- SAINT BONAVENTURE -- HENRY OF GHENT -- ROGER BACON -- EARLY LIFE -- UNIVERSITY AND SCIENTIFIC CAREER.

CAREER AS A FRIAR -- SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS -- EARLY YEARS -- STUDIES IN PARIS -- YEARS AT THE PAPAL CURIA AND RETURN TO PARIS -- LAST YEARS AT NAPLES -- ASSESSMENT -- SIGER OF BRABANT -- GILES OF ROME -- CHAPTER 5 THE LATE MEDIEVAL PERIOD -- OVERVIEW OF LATE MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY -- MEISTER ECKHART -- JOHN DUNS SCOTUS -- EARLY LIFE AND CAREER -- YEARS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PARIS -- FINAL PERIOD AT COLOGNE -- WILLIAM OF OCKHAM -- EARLY LIFE -- TREATISE TO JOHN XXII -- EXCOMMUNICATION -- JULIAN OF NORWICH -- NICHOLAS OF CUSA -- CONCLUSION -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- HISTORIES -- TEXTS -- INDEX -- BACK COVER.