Geoffrey asked:

Could you recommend a good book on Medieval philosophy?

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There are so many books on the subject of Medieval Philosophy, but The History of Christian
Philosophy in the Middle Agesby Etienne Gilson has the best authority. Few writers in the area have
Gilson's philosophical weight. Also he can really communicate like a great teacher. Gilson is really
inside what he is writing about, but fluently speaks the language of the outside (the rest of us). This is
a philosophical history too, not just a chronology in which events, whether mental or physical, are
sequenced according to the speculations, become conventions, of 'cause and effect'. As a Christian
philosophical history it presupposes (without the vulgarity of 'mentioning it') the hand of providence
subtlety at work in the freedom of will and operating through the life of the mind to reach the tongues,
hands and feet of the people.

Matthew Del Nevo

http://www.sicetnon.com