The Italian wars (1494), or with the Lutheran Reformation (1517), or Printing, or with the discovery of America, or with the beginning of … with the fall of Constantinople, or with the invention of Or even as late as the Moslem occupation of the Mediterranean. Or with the fall of the Western Roman Empire (usually dated C.E. Germanic tribes in the Roman Empire, or with the sack of Rome in 410, With the death of Theodosius in 395, or with the settlement of There seems to be little agreement and indeed little basis for

Scholars have advocated many different termini for our period, and

The period, things are even more imprecise. In the last quarter of the eighth century.” At the other end of Philosophical inquiry: it begins in Baghdad, in the middle of theĮighth century, and in France, in the itinerant court of Charlemagne, Medieval philosophy, understood as a project of independent Recent “consensus on when and where to place the beginnings of Though some include second- and third-century Christian thinkers (see Many histories of medieval philosophy (like many syllabiįor courses on the subject) begin with St. The chronological limits of medieval philosophy are likewise Greek-speaking eastern Europe, as well as North Africa and parts of Period, as the present author prefers to do, then the area must beĮxpanded to include, at least during the early centuries, If one takes medieval philosophy to include the Patristic To some extent a unit, culturally separate from its neighbors, it isĪlso true that medieval philosophy was decisively influenced by ideasįrom the Greek East, from the Jewish philosophical tradition, and from Primarily of the so called “Latin West,” the area, roughly The originators of the notion of the Middle Ages were thinking The first known documented use of the expression (in theįorm ‘ media tempestas’) is from 1469 (Robinson, p. In Western Europe and what was taken to be its rediscovery during the (or plural “Middle Ages”) was introduced in the fifteenthĬentury for the period between the decline of classical pagan culture “Middle Ages.” The notion of a “Middle Age”

‘Medieval philosophy’ refers to philosophy in WesternĮurope during the “medieval” period, the so called The Geographical and Chronological Boundaries of Medieval Philosophy

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