. . insights whiz to and fro like meteorites."—John Russell, New York Times Book Review

    S. Lewis, whose constant aim was to show the twentieth century reader how to read and how to understand old books and manuscripts.

    Prepared by R. D. Fulk, this Third Edition introduces a number of important improvements to the book's scope and coverage. The texts are based on manuscript authority and are sparingly emended, following the best considered scholarly editions.

    Thomas Aquinas in his treatise On Being and Essence. It considers uses of the words 'being' and 'essence,' it investigates the essence of natural substances, the immateriality of the human soul, and the existence and the essence of God." —Catholic Book Review

    Originally published by Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1966.Reveals the characters & achievements of the Byzantines, who created the splendors of empire.THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND HERACLIUS THE SARACEN CONQUESTS THE SUCCESSORS OF HERACLIUS THE EARLY ISAURIANS ICONOCLASM CONSTANTINE VI & IRENE HAEC DUO IMPERIA NICEPHORUS I & MICHAEL I LEO V & THE ICONOCLAST REVIVAL MICHAEL II & THEOPHILUS MICHAEL III IGNATIUS PHOTIUS & POPE NICHOLAS I BASIL THE MACEDONIAN LEO THE WISE THE FOURTH MARRIAGE ALEXANDER & THE REGENCY ROMANUS I CONSTANTINE VII PORPHYROGENITUS OMANUS II & NICEPHORUS II JOHN I BASIL II BASIL II CONTINUED 3CONSTANTINE VIII TO CONSTANTINE IX THE SCHISM OF 1054 MANZIKERT SUMMARY

    His Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance has provoked more discussion and inspired more research than any other twentieth-century study of the Italian Renaissance.Baron's book was the first historical synthesis of politics and humanism at that momentous critical juncture when Italy passed from medievalism to the thought of the Renaissance. Baron, unlike his peers, married culture and politics; he contended that to truly understand the Renaissance one must understand the rise of humanism within the political context of the day. This marked a significant departure for the field and one that changed the direction of Renaissance studies. Moreover, Baron's book was one of the first major attempts of any sort to ground intellectual history in a fully realized historical context and thus stands at the very origins of the interdisciplinary approach that is now the core of Renaissance studies.Baron's analysis of the forces that changed life and thought in fifteenth-century Italy was widely reviewed domestically and internationally, and scholars quickly noted that the book will henceforth be the starting point for any general discussion of the early Renaissance. The Times Literary Supplement called it a model of the kind of intensive study on which all understanding of cultural process must rest. First published in 1955 in two volumes, the work was reissued in a one-volume Princeton edition in 1966.

    In addition to essays on individual monuments there are general discussions of given periods & specific problems such as: why did Gothic come into being? Whitney Stoddard explores the interrelationship between all forms of medieval ecclesiastical art & characterization of the Gothic cathedral, which he believes to have an almost metaphysical basis.PrefaceRomanesque FranceEarly Gothic of the twelfth centuryHigh Gothic of the early thirteenth centuryFrom Rayonnant to FlamboyantThe Treasuries of Monasteries & CathedralsBibliographyIndex