The Classical Heritage and its Beneficiaries

R. R. Bolgar (Author)

9780521098120, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 December 1973

604 pages
21.5 x 13.7 x 3.2 cm, 0.8 kg

'He posses not only the vast knowledge required to fish in such wide waters, but the rarer capacity to synthesize his results; his powers of analysis are only equalled by his powers of judgment. He always keeps a firm grasp on the main thread of his argument; he never swamps the reader with mountains of unassimilated facts; he possesses not only a Gibbonian commoon sense … but a neo-Gibbonian prose style which is a delight to read, and is a welcome rarity among contemporary scholars. Rarer still is his astringent wit, as relevant as it is illuminating.' The Times Literary Supplement

Since its first publication in 1954, The Classical Heritage has become established as a classic introduction to cultural and intellectual history from the Carolingian age to the end of the Renaissance.

Preface to 1973 impression
Introduction
1. The background
2. The Greek East
3. The Carolingian Age
4. The Pre-scholastic Age
5. The Scolastic Age
6. Collapse an new beginnings
7. The high renaissance
8. The end of the renaissance and the appearance of new patterns in classical education and scholarship
9. Education and the classical heritage
Notes
Appendices
Index.

Subject Areas: Linguistics [CF]