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Don Isaac Abravanel (1437-1508) was a major historical figure during the waning of the Middle Ages. Statesman, diplomat, courtier, and financier, he ... More

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Kraemer's biography is at once a portrait of a great historical figure--Moses Maimonides was one of the most influential intellects in all of human ... More

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In this meeting of two great minds, Abraham Heschel, one of this century's great rabbis, tells the story of Maimonides, the greatest Jewish thinker ... More

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Fifty Key Jewish Thinkers is a panoramic survey of over 2,000 years of Jewish thought, religious and secular, ancient and modern. Now in its second ... More

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Moses Maimonides (1137/38-1204), scholar, physician, and philosopher, was the most influential Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages. In this magisterial ... More

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"Ockham Explained" is an important and much-needed resource on William of Ockham, one of the most important philosophers of the Middle Ages. His ... More

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Fifty Key Jewish Thinkers is a panoramic survey of over 2,000 years of Jewish thought, religious and secular, ancient and modern. Now in its second ... More

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This comprehensive biography of Moses Maimonides follows the life of the great medieval Jewish philosopher and theologian from his birth in Spain to ... More

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Moses Maimonides was a great physician, a dazzling Torah scholar, a community leader, and a philosopher whose greatest work attempted to reconcile ... More

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"Michael Psellos was the 'Cicero of Byzantium, ' except that his interests were more wide-ranging than those of his Roman predecessor. In addition to ... More

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A biography of the Spanish-born Jewish philosopher, rabbi, and physician of the Middle Ages who spent a good deal of his life in Egypt and whose ... More

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Focussing on individuals whose ideas shaped intellectual life between 400 and 1500, Fifty Key Medieval Thinkers is an accessible introduction to ... More

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The author introduces the reader to medieval life through the experience of Peter Abelard, master of the Paris schools, whose career included ... More

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This book provides a comprehensive overview of the life, times, and achievements of Averroes, a twelfth-century Muslim philosopher whose ideas were ... More

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Rumi is perhaps the only example in world literature of a devoted prose writer who suddenly burst forth into poetry during middle age to become a ... More

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St Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225-1274) is commonly viewed as one of the greatest Christian thinkers of all time. Aquinas was the ultimate combination of ... More

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Voltaire, the controversial French philosopher who was exiled from his country, imprisoned twice in the Bastille and had his brain removed after ... More

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Over fifty years after her death, Simone Weil (1909-1943) remains one of the most searching religious inquirers and political thinkers of the ... More

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