This is the first comprehensive study of the philosophical achievements of twelfth-century Western Europe. It is the collaboration of fifteen scholars whose detailed survey makes accessible the intellectual preoccupations of the period, with all texts cited in English translation throughout. After a discussion of the cultural context of twelfth-century speculation, and some of the main streams of thought - Platonic, Stoic, and Arabic - that quickened it, comes a characterisation of the new problems and perspectives of the period, in scientific inquiry, speculative grammar, and logic. This is followed by a closer examination of the distinctive features of some of the most innovative thinkers of the time, from Anselm and Abelard to the School of Chartres. A final section shows the impact of newly recovered works of Aristotle in the twelfth-century West.

Book x, 198 p., 8 plates : ill., facsims., music, ports. ; 22 cm. ; A note on the origins of the Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae (1931-1971) -- H. J. W. Tillyard, In Memoriam / Egon Wellesz -- The origin of the Modes / David Wulstan -- The Treatise on Music by John Laskaris / Christos Bentas -- Some Remarks on the Traditional Music of the Greeks of Corsica / Markos Ph. Dragoumis -- The 'Initia Hymnorum Ecclesiae Graecae', A Bibliographical Supplement / Enrica Follieri -- The Communion Chants in 13th-Century Byzantine Musical Manuscripts / Simon Harris -- The Synodikon of Tsar Boril and the Problem of Byzantino-Bulgarian Musical Relations / Stefan Lazarov -- The 'Three Teachers' and Their Place in the History of Greek Church Music / Maureen M. Morgan -- A Newly Discovered Fragment of a Fourteenth-Century Heirmologion / Jørgen Raasted -- 'Psellus' Treatise on Music' in Mizler's 'Bibliothek' / Lukas Richter -- A Computer-Aided Analysis of Thirty-Five Byzantine Hymns / Nanna Schiødt -- The Musical Works of Theoleptos, Metropolitan of Philadelphia / Miloš Velimirović-- An Unusual Russian 'Spiritual Verse' / Miloš Velimirović-- The Treatment of Text in the Kalophonic Chanting of Psalm 2 / Edward V. Williams.