This is a major contribution to the economic and social history of a mysterious period, the years around 1500, using new evidence and methods of analysis. It presents a fresh and engaging view of history by highlighting an individual, John Heritage.
"... This book is about a wool merchant and large scale farmer who epitomises in many ways the spirit of the period. John Heritage kept an account book, from which we can reconstruct a whole society in the vicinity of Moreton in Marsh, Gloucestershire. He took part in the remova…
Preliminary Material /H. Lagerlund -- A History Of Skepticism In The Middle Ages /Henrik Lagerlund -- Al-Ghazālī'S Skepticism Revisited /Taneli Kukkonen -- Henry Of Ghent And John Duns Scotus On Skepticism And The Possibility Of Naturally Acquired Knowledge /Martin Pickavé -- Oc…
The history of skepticism usually ignores the Middle Ages. It is customary in most historical overviews to say that epistemological skepticism and external-world skepticism did not find its way into the Western philosophical tradition until Sextus Empiricus was rediscovered and …
The first grammatical descriptions of the French language were produced in England, several centuries before the first grammar written in French (but also several centuries after the Norman Conquest). This book describes the status of French in England during the period from the…
