Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1. Patterns in Ancient Time and Culture
1. Transcendental Truth and Cultural Relativism: A Historian’s View
2. Problems with the Contrast between Circular and Linear Views of Time in the Interpretation of Ancient and Early Medieval History
3. Marriage, Feminism, Theology, and the New Social History: Dyan Elliott’s Spiritual Marriage
4. Augustine’s View of Marriage: The Clash of Interpretation
Part 2. Setting Boundaries
5. Setting Boundaries: Early Medieval Reflections on Religious Toleration and Their Jewish Roots
6. The Middle Ages in the History of Toleration: A Prolegomena
7. Reflections on a Giotto Exhibit: Does Joseph Ratzinger’s The Spirit of the Liturgy Satisfactorily Draw the Liturgical Differences between East and West in the Late Middle Ages?
Part 3. Humanism, Natural Law, and Teleology
8. Humanism: The Struggle to Possess a Word
9. The Natural Law: The First Grace
10. The Return of Purpose
11. Lecce’s Baroque longue durée | Glenn W. Olsen and Suzanne Olsen
Bibliography
Index