Marcia L. Colish (1937–2024)
Author of Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 400–1400
About the Author
Marcia L. Colish is Frederick B. Artz Professor of History, emerita, at Oberlin College and visiting fellow in history at Yale University.
Works by Marcia L. Colish
The Fathers and Beyond: Church Fathers between Ancient and Medieval Thought (Variorum Collected Studies) (2008) 2 copies
The Haskins Society journal : studies in medieval history. Volume 11, 1998 (2003) — Contributor — 2 copies
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- Legal name
- Colish, Marcia Lillian
- Birthdate
- 1937
- Date of death
- 2024-04-09
- Gender
- female
- Education
- Smith College (BA|1958)
Yale University (MA|1959)
Yale University (Ph.D|1965) - Occupations
- professor
historian - Organizations
- Oberlin College
Yale University - Awards and honors
- Haskins Medal (1998)
Fellow, Medieval Academy of America (1988)
Guggenheim Fellowship (1989)
Wilbur Cross Medal (1993) - Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Places of residence
- Guilford, Connecticut, USA
- Place of death
- New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- Connecticut, USA
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Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition (Yale Intellectual History of the West Series) by Marcia L. Colish
Colish's examination of medieval thought is simply and definitively comprehensive. Dense and often foreboding, the text surveys the evolution of theology, literature, philosophy, political theory and economics throughout Europe from the Fifth through the Fifteenth Centuries. The effect of Islamic and Byzantine scholarship on Latin Europe is especially fecund. Averroes shines in those sections.
Correspondingly the traditional plaudits afforded to Augustine, Benedict, Anselm, Bernard, William show more of Ockham and Thomas Aquinas are reinforced with solemn scholarship. As noted there is considerable overlap with my previous reading of R.W. Southern. Aside from such, this is an excellent introduction to Intellectual History of the Middle Ages. This is not a positivist account, setbacks in various disciplines are announced as such without undue recrimination.
I benefited as well from the lush bibliography at the book's conclusion. show less
Correspondingly the traditional plaudits afforded to Augustine, Benedict, Anselm, Bernard, William show more of Ockham and Thomas Aquinas are reinforced with solemn scholarship. As noted there is considerable overlap with my previous reading of R.W. Southern. Aside from such, this is an excellent introduction to Intellectual History of the Middle Ages. This is not a positivist account, setbacks in various disciplines are announced as such without undue recrimination.
I benefited as well from the lush bibliography at the book's conclusion. show less
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