Introduction.

Part I: The End of the Ancient World.

Part II: The Carolingians.

Part III: Rediscovering the Ancient Literature.

Part IV: The High Medieval Debate.

Part V: Dissidence.

Conclusion.

Index.

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G. R. Evans is Lecturer in History at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of numerous critically-acclaimed books in the fields of patristic, medieval, and Reformation history and theology including Augustine on Evil, Problems of Authority in the Reformation Debates, The Church and the Churches, Philosophy and Theology in the Middle Ages, and Anselm. Dr Evans is a prominent member of the Church and Order Advisory Group of the Church of England and has written extensively on contemporary ecclesiological issues.

G. R. Evans, University of Cambridge