{"product_id":"knowledge-true-and-useful-a-cultural-history-of-early-scholasticism-hardback-9781512824704","title":"Knowledge True and Useful; A Cultural History of Early Scholasticism (Hardback) 9781512824704","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eKnowledge True and Useful\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Cultural History of Early Scholasticism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eFrank Rexroth (Author), John Burden (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781512824704\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 19 September 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e400 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3 cm, 0.766 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"\u003cp\u003eA fresh and insightful book that takes the question of early scholasticism in a new and significant\u003cbr\u003e direction.\u003c\/p\u003e \" (Patrick Geary, author of The Myth of Nations: The Medieval Origins of Europe) \"Rexroth's book offers a well-informed, stimulating, well-written and lively picture of the developments taking place in the scholastic and intellectual history of the central Middle Ages. Rexroth's approach to the 'scientific revolution' is particularly remarkable, combining the intellectual history of teaching and ideas, the social history of teachers, students, schools and universities, and – which is much more rare – the history of the emotions that unite, divide and structure the individuals and social groups affected by these developments.\" (Metascience)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eA radical shift took place in medieval Europe that still shapes contemporary intellectual life: freeing themselves from the fixed beliefs of the past, scholars began to determine and pursue their own avenues of academic inquiry. In \u003ci\u003eKnowledge True and Useful\u003c\/i\u003e, Frank Rexroth shows how, beginning in the 1070s, a new kind of knowledge arose in Latin Europe that for the first time could be deemed \"scientific.\"\u003cbr\u003e In the twelfth century, when Peter Abelard proclaimed the primacy of reason in all areas of inquiry (and started an affair with his pupil Heloise), it was a scandal. But he was not the only one who wanted to devote his life to this new enterprise of \"scholastic\" knowledge. Rexroth explores how the first students and teachers of this movement came together in new groups and schools, examining their intellectual debates and disputes as well as the lifelong connections they forged with one another through the scholastic communities to which they belonged.\u003cbr\u003e Rexroth shows how the resulting transformations produced a new understanding of truth and the utility of learning, as well as a new perspective on the intellectual tradition and the division of knowledge into academic disciplines—marking a turning point in European intellectual culture that culminated in the birth of the university and, with it, traditions and forms of academic inquiry that continue to organize the pursuit of knowledge today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52685567328536,"sku":"9781512824704","price":45.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/knowledge-true-and-useful-a-cultural-history-of-early-scholasticism-hardback-9781512824704","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}