Illustrations of the History of Medieval Thought in the Departments of Theology and Ecclesiastical Politics

viii, 376 pp. Green cloth boards. Poole tutored T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) at Oxford. CONTENTS: Introduction; Claudius of Turin and Agobard of Lyons; John the Scot; The Dark Age; The School of Chartres; Peter Abailard; The Trial of Gilbert de la Porree; John of Salisbury; The Hierarchical Doctrine of the State; The Opposition to the Temporal Claims of the Papacy; Wyliffe's Doctrine of Lordship; Appendix: Note on John the Scot's Supposed Travels in Greece; Excursus on the Later History of John the Scot; Note on a Supposed Theological Exposition by Gerbert; Note on the Precursors of Nominalism; Excursus on a Supposed Anticipation of Saint Anselm; Excursus on the Writings of William of Conches; Excursus on the Interpretation of a Place in John of Salisbury's Metalogicus; Note on Abailard's Masters; Note on the Second Preface to Gilbert de la Porree's Commentary on Boethius; Note on Clarenbald of Arras; Index of Names.