Medieval culture ; the image and the city / edited by Ruth Brantl.

Contributor Brantl, Ruth, 1918- ed.

Imprint:New York : G. Braziller, [1966]

Description384 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Note:I. THE IMAGE: THE DIVINE CENTER: Nature as image / St. Augustine -- Man as image / St. Augustine -- The footprints of God / St. Bonaventure -- A WAY OF SEEING: The canticle of brother sun / St. Francis of Assisi -- The deer's cry / St. Patrick of Armagh -- The wolf of Gubbio / Anonymous, XII century, Italy -- De Luscinia / Alcuin -- His epitaph / Alcuin -- The golden legend of St. Christopher / Anonymous, VIII century, Syria -- Hymn for Good Friday / Peter Abelard -- The symbolism of churches / William Durandus -- On quaternities / Rodulfus Glaber -- Vexilla Regis / Fortunatus -- THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH: Pageant for Corpus Christi / Anonymous, XII century, England -- The second shepherd's play / Anonymous, XIV century, England -- THE CHURCH AND SOCIETY: The two swords / Pope Boniface VIII -- On monarchy / Dante Alighieri -- The monastic life / John Cassian -- The heresy trial / John of Salisbury -- The vision of William concerning Piers the plowman / William Langland -- Charm for unfruitful land / Anonymous, X century, Ireland -- The milk-white doe / Anonymous, XIII century, England -- II. SERVICE: THE STRUCTURE OF SERVICE: On law / St. Thomas Aquinas -- Roll of a manor in Sussex / Anonymous, XII century, England -- Coronation charter of Henry I / Anonymous, A.D. 1100, England -- Rules of the guild of white tawyers / Anonymous, XIII century, England -- On labor / St. Benedict of Nursia -- CHIVALRY: The song of Roland / Anonymous, c.A.D. 1100, France -- The book of the order of chivalry / Ramon Lull -- The book of the knight of La Tour Landry / La Tour Landry -- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Anonymous, XIV century, England -- THE SERVICE OF WOMAN: Though our songs / Anonymous, XII century(?), France -- Allons au bois le may cueillir / Anonymous, XII century, France -- The earth lies open-breasted / Anonymous, XIII century, France -- Would I might go far over the sea / Marie de France -- David's lament for Jonathan / Peter Abelard -- On marriage / John of Salisbury -- I am Eve, wife of Adam / Anonymous, X century, Ireland -- Stabat mater / Jacopo da Todi -- Star of the sea / Bernard of Clairvaux -- III. THE JOURNEY: THE PILGRIM: Prologue to the Canterbury Tales / Geoffrey Chaucer -- The voyage to St. Brendan / Anonymous, XI century, England -- THE MERCHANT: The travels of Marco Polo / Marco Polo -- THE CRUSADER: The third crusade / Roger of Wendover -- THE ARTIST: Giotto / Lorenzo Ghiberti -- The various arts / Theophilus -- THE SCHOLAR: On the admirable force and efficacy of art and nature / Roger Bacon -- Letter to his court astrologer / Frederick II -- The London lapidary of King Philip / Anonymous, XIII century, England -- Medieval lore / Bartolomeus Angelicus -- Oxford statutes / Anonymous, XIII century, England -- History of my calamities / Peter Abelard -- A letter to Heloise concerning Abelard / Peter the Venerable -- IV. THE PHILOSOPHER: The proslogion / St. Anselm of Canterbury -- The grades of knowledge / Hugh of St. Victor -- Benjamin Minor / Richard of St. Victor -- Retracing the arts to theology / St. Bonaventure -- Philosophy the handmaid of theology / St. Thomas Aquinas -- IV. THE CITY: from The City of God / St. Augustine -- from The Two Cities / Bishop Otto of Freising -- The two kinds of men / St. Augustine -- THE SOCIAL IMAGE: The body social / John of Salisbury -- from The Life of Charlemagne / Einhard -- King St. Louis / Fra Salimbene degli Adami -- from The Divine Comedy / Dante Alighieri -- Treatise on the divine government / St. Thomas Aquinas -- Dies Irae / Thomas of Celano (?) -- EPILOGUE.

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