Atlas of Medieval and Renaissance Thought, Philosophy and Science: Overviews and Surveys in the Form of Charts, Tables and Conceptual Maps

This conceptual Atlas of Medieval and Renaissance Thought, Philosophy and Science presents visual overviews, thematic outlines, surveys and summaries of the many thematic aspects of this long period of European intellectual history, c. 400 to 1600. Conceptual charts and ‘maps’ are well suited for structuring, organizing and presenting information, although this approach is rarely used in the humanities.The pictorial representations in this atlas are multi-dimensional: chronological, thematic, rating the importance of the thinker or tradition and showing affinities and tensions between them.Many of the diagrams are chronologically proportional which gives the reader an immediate sense of time and historical distance.This book constitutes a sort of ‘intellectual atlas’, in many ways comparable to a geographical atlas, but instead charting out the intellectual landscape of this period.The topics covered include the history of medieval Christianity, Judaism and Islam, the history of scienc