The Cardinal Virtues in the Middle Ages
A Study in Moral Thought from the Fourth to the Fourteenth Century
Biographical note
István P. Bejczy, Ph.D. (1994) in History, Radboud University Nijmegen, has published on medieval culture (including La Lettre du Prêtre Jean: Une utopie médiévale) and Renaissance humanism (including Erasmus and the Middle Ages: The Historical Consciousness of a Christian Humanist).
Readership
All those interested in intellectual history, philosophy, theology, ethics, and religious culture.
Reviews
"Le livre de Bejczy est une étude magistrale, qui deviendra sans aucun doute un ouvrage de référence pour tous les historiens de l'éthique médiévale."
Guy Guldentops, Bulletin de théologie et de philosophie médiévales 78, 2: 535-542.
„Das flüssig geschriebene, bestens dokumentierte und klar gegliederte Buch von István Bejczy bietet nichts Geringeres als eine konsistente (und bisher tatsächlich fehlende) Geschichte der vier sog. Kardinaltugenden (prudentia, iustitia, fortitudo, temperantia) von der christlichen Spätantike bis ins Spätmittelalter. […] Es ist beeindruckend, welche Fülle an Primär- und Sekundärquellen B. verarbeitet hat, wie er dabei stets den Überblick behält und sein Buch nie ausufern läßt, ihm vielmehr auf sympathische Weise seine Handlichkeit bewahrt.”
Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch, Bd. 47 (2012), H. 3, p. 498.
Guy Guldentops, Bulletin de théologie et de philosophie médiévales 78, 2: 535-542.
„Das flüssig geschriebene, bestens dokumentierte und klar gegliederte Buch von István Bejczy bietet nichts Geringeres als eine konsistente (und bisher tatsächlich fehlende) Geschichte der vier sog. Kardinaltugenden (prudentia, iustitia, fortitudo, temperantia) von der christlichen Spätantike bis ins Spätmittelalter. […] Es ist beeindruckend, welche Fülle an Primär- und Sekundärquellen B. verarbeitet hat, wie er dabei stets den Überblick behält und sein Buch nie ausufern läßt, ihm vielmehr auf sympathische Weise seine Handlichkeit bewahrt.”
Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch, Bd. 47 (2012), H. 3, p. 498.
Table of contents
Introduction
1. Patristic Era and Early Middle Ages (c. 400-c. 1100)
Christianizing the Cardinal Virtues: The Three Great Fathers of the West
Christianized Cardinal Virtues: The Early Middle Ages
Conclusion
2. The Twelfth Century
The Renewal of Moral Thought
Classicizing Tendencies
Early Moral Theology
Religious Moral Thought
Parisian Theology: Peter Lombard and After
Conclusion
3. The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
Moral Discourse: Aristotle and Beyond
The Cardinal Virtues: Text and Context
Saving the Fourfold Scheme
Cardinal Virtues and Secular Ethics
Conclusion
4. Fallen Man in Search of Virtue
Virtue and the Fall
The Cardinal Virtues and the Vices
Upsetting Aristotle
Conclusion
Conclusion
Appendix I
I.1. Prudence and the Moral Virtues according to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
I.2. The Subdivisions of the Cardinal Virtues according to Some Classical and Medieval Writings
I.3. The Classification of the Moral Virtues according to Giles of Rome, Gerald of Odo, and John Buridan
Appendix II: Some Unedited Medieval Texts on the Cardinal Virtues
Bibliography
Index of Manuscripts
Index of Ancient and Medieval Names and Anonymous Works
1. Patristic Era and Early Middle Ages (c. 400-c. 1100)
Christianizing the Cardinal Virtues: The Three Great Fathers of the West
Christianized Cardinal Virtues: The Early Middle Ages
Conclusion
2. The Twelfth Century
The Renewal of Moral Thought
Classicizing Tendencies
Early Moral Theology
Religious Moral Thought
Parisian Theology: Peter Lombard and After
Conclusion
3. The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
Moral Discourse: Aristotle and Beyond
The Cardinal Virtues: Text and Context
Saving the Fourfold Scheme
Cardinal Virtues and Secular Ethics
Conclusion
4. Fallen Man in Search of Virtue
Virtue and the Fall
The Cardinal Virtues and the Vices
Upsetting Aristotle
Conclusion
Conclusion
Appendix I
I.1. Prudence and the Moral Virtues according to Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
I.2. The Subdivisions of the Cardinal Virtues according to Some Classical and Medieval Writings
I.3. The Classification of the Moral Virtues according to Giles of Rome, Gerald of Odo, and John Buridan
Appendix II: Some Unedited Medieval Texts on the Cardinal Virtues
Bibliography
Index of Manuscripts
Index of Ancient and Medieval Names and Anonymous Works
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