TY - BOOK AU - Marenbon,John TI - Pagans and Philosophers: The Problem of Paganism from Augustine to Leibniz SN - 9780691142555 AV - BL432 .M37 2017 U1 - 261.22 23 PY - 2015///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Paganism KW - History KW - Philosophy and religion KW - Philosophy KW - RELIGION / Philosophy KW - bisacsh KW - Acts of the Apostles KW - America KW - Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius KW - Aristotelians KW - Aristotle KW - Arts Faculties KW - Asia KW - Augustine of Hippo KW - Augustine KW - Boethius KW - China KW - Chinese philosophers KW - Chinese religion KW - Christian Europe KW - Christian belief KW - Christian teachers KW - Christianity KW - Christianization KW - City of God KW - Collationes KW - Consolation of Philosophy KW - Dante Alighieri KW - Early Middle Ages KW - English poets KW - Entheticus de dogmate philosophorum KW - Epicurus KW - Europe KW - Geoffrey Chaucer KW - Giovanni Boccaccio KW - Gottfried Willhelm Leibniz KW - Hell KW - Historical Synthesis KW - John of Piano Carpini KW - John of Salisbury KW - Long Middle Ages KW - Middle Ages KW - Mongols KW - Peter Abelard KW - Policraticus KW - Problem of Paganism KW - Roman history KW - The Book of John Mandeville KW - Theologia Christiana KW - Theologia Summi Boni KW - University of Oxford KW - University of Paris KW - Western Europe KW - Willehalm KW - William Langland KW - William of Rubruk KW - ancient models and language KW - ancient paganism KW - ancient pagans KW - classical antiquity KW - contemporary pagans KW - early medieval scholars KW - encyclopaedic tradition KW - higher education KW - humanism KW - knowledge KW - modernity KW - pagan culture KW - pagan knowledge KW - pagan salvation KW - pagan society KW - pagan virtue KW - pagan wisdom KW - paganism KW - pagans KW - philosophy KW - relativism KW - sack of Rome KW - salvation KW - theological challenges KW - theological problems KW - theoretical developments KW - universities KW - university theologians KW - unknown pagan peoples KW - virtue KW - virtuous pagans KW - wisdom N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; A Note on References and Citations --; Introduction: The Problem of Paganism --; Part I: The Problem Takes Shape --; CHAPTER 1. Prelude: Before Augustine --; CHAPTER 2. Augustine --; CHAPTER 3. Boethius --; Part II: From Alcuin to Langland --; CHAPTER 4. The Early Middle Ages and the Christianization of Europe --; CHAPTER 5. Abelard --; CHAPTER 6. John of Salisbury and the Encyclopaedic Tradition --; CHAPTER 7. Arabi, Mongolia and Beyond: Contemporary Pagans in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries --; CHAPTER 8. Aristotelian Wisdom: Unity, Rejection or Relativism --; CHAPTER 9. University Theologians on Pagan Virtue and Salvation --; CHAPTER 10. Dante and Boccaccio --; CHAPTER 11. Langland and Chaucer --; Part III: The Continuity of the Problem of Paganism, 1400-1700 --; CHAPTER 12. Pagan Knowledge, 1400-1700 --; CHAPTER 13. Pagan Virtue, 1400-1700 --; CHAPTER 14. The Salvation of Pagans, 1400-1700 --; EPILOGUE. Leibniz and China --; General Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - From the turn of the fifth century to the beginning of the eighteenth, Christian writers were fascinated and troubled by the "Problem of Paganism," which this book identifies and examines for the first time. How could the wisdom and virtue of the great thinkers of antiquity be reconciled with the fact that they were pagans and, many thought, damned? Related questions were raised by encounters with contemporary pagans in northern Europe, Mongolia, and, later, America and China.Pagans and Philosophers explores how writers-philosophers and theologians, but also poets such as Dante, Chaucer, and Langland, and travelers such as Las Casas and Ricci-tackled the Problem of Paganism. Augustine and Boethius set its terms, while Peter Abelard and John of Salisbury were important early advocates of pagan wisdom and virtue. University theologians such as Aquinas, Scotus, Ockham, and Bradwardine, and later thinkers such as Ficino, Valla, More, Bayle, and Leibniz, explored the difficulty in depth. Meanwhile, Albert the Great inspired Boethius of Dacia and others to create a relativist conception of scientific knowledge that allowed Christian teachers to remain faithful Aristotelians. At the same time, early anthropologists such as John of Piano Carpini, John Mandeville, and Montaigne developed other sorts of relativism in response to the issue.A sweeping and original account of an important but neglected chapter in Western intellectual history, Pagans and Philosophers provides a new perspective on nothing less than the entire period between the classical and the modern world UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400866359?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400866359 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400866359.jpg ER -