Schools and Scholars in Fourteenth-Century England

  • Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987
By William J. Courtenay
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. Very Good/Very Good. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. First Edition. Octavo (24x16.5x3.5cm); xx + 436pp. including bibliography for primary and secondary sources and index.

Pictorial dustjacket. Brown boards with traditional Princeton labeling and gilt lettering on spine. Jacket shows some tanning of the spine, and a 1.5cm closed tear at front bottom edge (just visible in our photograph; now protected in mylar); jacket and volume otherwise unmarred and unmarked.

Scholasticism as an international relay between Oxford, Paris, Padua, and many other learned university and proto-university centers, with a special emphasis on the mendicant and monastic orders that agitated the busy minds behind pre-Chaucerian theology and philosophy.

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